LEADER 07113cam 2200625 i 4500001 on1196173549 003 OCoLC 005 20210704144456.2 008 210226s2021 nyua e b 001 0 eng 010 2021008990 019 12487237231251803414 020 9781631498909 |qhardcover 020 1631498908 |qhardcover 020 |z9781631498916 |qelectronic publication 035 (Sirsi) 40030645468 035 40030645468 035 (OCoLC)1196173549 |z(OCoLC)1248723723 |z(OCoLC)1251803414 040 DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dOCLCO |dOCLCF |dON8 |dOQX |dTCH |dJPL |dOCLCO |dGL4 |dYDX |dVP@ |dILC |dUtOrBLW 042 pcc 043 n-us--- 050 00 E185.615 |b.H524 2021 082 00 305.800973/0904 |223 100 1 Hinton, Elizabeth Kai, |d1983- |eauthor. |=^A1352137 245 10 America on fire : |bthe untold history of police violence and Black rebellion since the 1960s / |cElizabeth Hinton. 246 30 Untold history of police violence and Black rebellion since the 1960s 250 First edition. 264 1 New York, NY : |bLiveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, |c[2021] 300 396 pages : |billustrations ; |c24 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 Introduction -- Origins. The cycle ; The projects ; The vigilantes ; The snipers ; The poisoned tree ; The schools ; The commissions -- Legacies. The system ; The proposal ; The reforms -- Conclusion -- Timeline of Black rebellions. 520 " 'If you want to understand the massive antiracist protests of 2020, put down the navel-gazing books about racial healing and read America on Fire.' -Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination. Library Journal "Books and Authors to Know: Titles to Watch 2021" From one of our top historians, a groundbreaking story of policing and "riots" that shatters our understanding of the post-civil rights era. What began in spring 2020 as local protests in response to the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police quickly exploded into a massive nationwide movement. Millions of mostly young people defiantly flooded into the nation's streets, demanding an end to police brutality and to the broader, systemic repression of Black people and other people of color. To many observers, the protests appeared to be without precedent in their scale and persistence. Yet, as the acclaimed historian Elizabeth Hinton demonstrates in America on Fire, the events of 2020 had clear precursors-and any attempt to understand our current crisis requires a reckoning with the recent past. Even in the aftermath of Donald Trump, many Americans consider the decades since the civil rights movement in the mid-1960s as a story of progress toward greater inclusiveness and equality. Hinton's sweeping narrative uncovers an altogether different history, taking us on a troubling journey from Detroit in 1967 and Miami in 1980 to Los Angeles in 1992 and beyond to chart the persistence of structural racism and one of its primary consequences, the so-called urban riot. Hinton offers a critical corrective: the word riot was nothing less than a racist trope applied to events that can only be properly understood as rebellions-explosions of collective resistance to an unequal and violent order. As she suggests, if rebellion and the conditions that precipitated it never disappeared, the optimistic story of a post-Jim Crow United States no longer holds. Black rebellion, America on Fire powerfully illustrates, was born in response to poverty and exclusion, but most immediately in reaction to police violence. In 1968, President Lyndon Johnson launched the "War on Crime," sending militarized police forces into impoverished Black neighborhoods. Facing increasing surveillance and brutality, residents threw rocks and Molotov cocktails at officers, plundered local businesses, and vandalized exploitative institutions. Hinton draws on exclusive sources to uncover a previously hidden geography of violence in smaller American cities, from York, Pennsylvania, to Cairo, Illinois, to Stockton, California. The central lesson from these eruptions-that police violence invariably leads to community violence-continues to escape policymakers, who respond by further criminalizing entire groups instead of addressing underlying socioeconomic causes. The results are the hugely expanded policing and prison regimes that shape the lives of so many Americans today. Presenting a new framework for understanding our nation's enduring strife, America on Fire is also a warning: rebellions will surely continue unless police are no longer called on to manage the consequences of dismal conditions beyond their control, and until an oppressive system is finally remade on the principles of justice and equality"-- |cProvided by publisher. 520 What began in spring 2020 as local protests in response to the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police quickly exploded into a massive nationwide movement. To many observers, the protests appeared to be without precedent in their scale and persistence. Hinton shows that the events of 2020 had clear precursors-- and any attempt to understand our current crisis requires a reckoning with the recent past. She takes us on a troubling journey from Detroit in 1967 and Miami in 1980 to Los Angeles in 1992, charting the persistence of structural racism and one of its primary consequences, the so-called urban riot. 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