...Barry Shank Copyright © 1996 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1996 Fears of the White Unconscious: Music, Race, and Identification in the Censorship Of ”Cop Killer” Barry Shank On 11 June 1992, the Dallas...

...Roseann Liu; Savannah Shange The 2014 killing of Akai Gurley, a Black New Yorker, at the hands of Chinese American rookie cop Peter Liang sparked months of protest and an increased interest in the fault lines between Asian American and Black communities in the United States. Drawing on ethnographic...

... as a monad. This power, however, is fleeting as history is yet again rendered latent and forgotten once it is transformed into a gesture or everyday common sense. In this article, Stefka Hristova offers a comparative analysis of two Internet-driven participatory memes — “Pepper Spray Cop” and “Doing...

... organizations partnered with Northwestern University’s Center for Urban Affairs to create the Chicago Law Enforcement Study Group. The study group’s first major project, The Police Use of Fatal Force in Chicago , released in late March 1971, concluded that Chicago cops killed more often than officers elsewhere...

... of genre to the production of meaning. This is EDITORS' INTRODUCTION/3 particularly true in Barry Shank's article on "Cop Killer," and Beth Lofredda and Grace Elizabeth Hale's essay on the 1950s home movie, which take as their subject how the form of a popular...

...- tal, plainclothes cops stop Hamid. After looking at his papers, one officer asks: What do you think of the government? Taxi driver: But, Mr. Police Officer, I don’t think anything. I’m not political. I work. I have nine children to feed. I’m 50 years old. I...

... was “The Painful Problem of Homosexuality” (“L’homosexualité, ce douloureux problème screaming “Down with the hetero-cops!”1 This protest marked the moment when a still loosely formed community of activists discovered its identity in action and, soon afterward, became known as the FHAR, the Front...

.... In the beginning, the students were overwhelmingly cops. My first class had lots of students who had been on the other side of the police bar- ricades from me, up at Columbia in 1968. We got on quite well. They didn’t like lib- erals one little bit, but radicals were...

... at numerous meetings (where agents seemed to constitute voting blocs) and especially at demonstrations. Of the ten thousand demonstrators in Chicago in 1968 perhaps a thousand were planted agents, who were in the forefront of the violence: it was cops dressed as demonstrators fighting cops dressed...

... a policeman. It is significant to understand the political resonance of the label— “cop killer”—that constructs Mumia Abu-Jamal as a dangerous criminal. Abu-Jamal was not a bank robber or burglar charged with killing others during the commission...

..., health care, police brutality, gentrification . . . those? As if to say, “Oh no, we can’t be concerned with any of that! We’re just so excited about gay cops, because if we have gay cops gunning down unarmed people of color, then we have arrived!” It’s the nightmare of identity politics where gay...

..., out of sight of the cops. Although he acknowledged the problem of disorder, Maloney was bitter about the Quebec authorities' methods of preserving the environment. In early 1970 the government moved quickly, reaching its decision to obtain the entire island without consulting...

.... S. history at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. He is author of Cops and Bob- bies: Police Authority in Nao York and London, 1830-1870 (Chicago, 1977), and is currently writing a b5ook on revenuers and moonshiners in the late nineteenth-century South. Peter Novick is Professor...

... for you.' F: Would you say that the cops were easier on women than on men in the Passaic textile strike? G: No, I wouldn't say so, not in the Passaic tex• tile strike, and certainly not in Gastonia. That thinking continued for instance, just to digress, in the strike in Marion, North...

... Wilbur R. (Bill) Miller teaches U.S. history at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. He is author of Cops andBobbits: Police Authority in New York and London, 1830-1870 (Chicago, 1977), and is currently writing a book on revenuers and moonshiners in the late nineteenth-cen- tury...

... University Press, 1984). 353 pp. $24.95 (cloth). Sidney L. Harring, Policing a Class Suciety: ThC Ex~erimeof American Cities, 1865-1915 (Rutgers University Press, 1983). 301 pp. $30.00 (cloth). Cops have not been particularly appealing to radical historians, who have usually been more...