
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