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Black rage in New Orleans: police brutality and African American activism from World War II to Hurricane Katrina
2010, Louisiana State University Press
in English
0807135909 9780807135907
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Table of Contents
Introduction: police violence, New Orleans, and the postwar urban landscape
Negro police will aid in law and order: the fight for black police in the Crescent City
Or does it explode?: the black freedom struggle comes to New Orleans
"We want an end to police brutality": the Black Panthers, desire, and police repression
The politics of self-defense: Mark Essex, the soul patrol, and black vigilantism
The right to organize: the Black Organization of Police, mass protest, and the city council hearings
Black power politics: Ernest "Dutch" Morial and the limits of police reform
"We are living in a police state": the Algiers tragedy, the maturation of community protest, and the politics of a civilian review board
Black-on-black crime: the consequences of white flight, the war on drugs, and political indifference
"A new day in Babylon": the professionalization of the New Orleans Police Department and the claiming of urban public space.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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