Race, place, and suburban policing : too close for comfort /
"Relying on compelling interviews from the Meacham Park neighborhood--a marginalized Black enclave located in a predominately white affluent St. Louis suburb, this book brings to life the everyday interactions of disadvantaged suburban Blacks as they faced annexation, aggressive policing, two n...
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Race, place, and policing in the United States
- "You're nothing but trash over here" : black faces in white places
- There's a new sheriff in town : the police making contact
- "It's the same song" : the tragedies of Kevin Johnson and Charles "Cookie" Thornton
- The road to reconciliation
- Conclusion and discussion.