... The disturbing case of the 1997 torture and rape of Haitian immigrant Abner Louima by NYPD officers is taken up as a focal point in this chapter. It examines the interplay between police brutality, Black religions, and the enduring legacy of slavery in everyday police practices. The chapter...

... African American New Yorkers, observing the recruitment of immigrant police officers, demanded the appointment of Black police. They did this as a response to decades of disproportionate arrests of Black men and women in the city and police brutality, and argued that a respectable Black officer...

...Preface This book invokes the notion of brutalism to describe an age gripped by the planetary-scale pathos of demolition and by the production of darkness and all sorts of waste, leftover traces of a gigantic demiurgy. The aim is not to write the sociology or political economy...

... brutalism political thought architecture politics of reparation ...

..., as the birthplace of humanity, now poses the question of the Earth in the most unexpected, complex, and paradoxical manner, allowing us to think another world to come. computation planetary combustion brutalism Africa neovitalism ...

... computation planetary combustion brutalism Africa neovitalism ...