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Police Violence

Date Published: 11/7/2019

Selections in this reading list explore and criticize police violence in both contemporary and historical contexts. Topics include the militancy of policing, Black Lives Matter, carceral technologies, gender, and more.

The introduction to each book is free, and books may be purchased at dukeupress.edu.



JOURNAL ISSUE

Policing, Justice, and the Radical Imagination

Amy Chazkel, Monica Kim, and A. Naomi Paik, issue editors
Radical History Review 137, 2020


JOURNAL ARTICLE

Black Lives Matter and the Limits of Formal Black Politics

Minkah Makalani
South Atlantic Quarterly 116:3, 2017


JOURNAL ISSUE

Violence and Policing

Shamus Khan and Madiha Tahir, editors
Public Culture 89, 2019


JOURNAL ARTICLE

Carpeteo Redux: Surveillance and Subversion against the Puerto Rican Student Movement

Marisol LeBrón
Radical History Review 128, 2017


BOOK

Violence Work: State Power and the Limits of Police

Micol Seigel
2018


JOURNAL ARTICLE

Lights, Camera, Police Action!

John L. Jackson, Jr.
Public Culture 78, 2016


BOOK

Warfare in the American Homeland: Policing and Prison in a Penal Democracy

Joy James, editor
2007


BOOK

Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life

Ruha Benjamin, editor
2019


JOURNAL ARTICLE

The Gender of Police Violence

Nikki Jones
Tikkun 31:1, 2016


BOOK

Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology

INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, editors
2016


BOOK

Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity

Loïc Wacquant
2009


BOOK

Public Spectacles of Violence: Sensational Cinema and Journalism in Early Twentieth-Century Mexico and Brazil

Rielle Navitski
2017


JOURNAL ARTICLE

Forging a Modern Democratic Imaginary: Police Sovereignty, Neoliberalism, and the Boundaries of Neo-Korea

Jong Bum Kwon
positions 22:1, 2014


JOURNAL ARTICLE

"Anarchist Beauties" in Late Meiji Japan: Media Narratives of Police Violence in the Red Flag Incident

Tomoko Seto
Radical History Review 126, 2016


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