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Rutgers University Press Race and Police: The Origin of Our Peculiar
Book SynopsisIn the United States, race and police were founded along with a capitalist economy dependent on the enslavement of workers of African descent. Race and Police builds a critical theory of American policing by analyzing a heterodox history of policing, drawn from the historiography of slavery and slave patrols. Beginning by tracing the historical origins of the police mandate in British colonial America, the book shows that the peculiar institution of racialized chattel slavery originated along with a novel, binary conception of race. On one side, for the first time Europeans from various nationalities were united in a single racial category. Inclusion in this category was necessary for citizenship. On the other, Blacks were branded as slaves, cast as social enemies, and assumed to be threats to the social order. The state determined not only that it would administer slavery, but that it would regulate slaves, authorizing the use of violence by agents of the state and white citizens to secure the social order. In doing so, slavery, citizenship, and police mutually informed one another, and together they produced racial capitalism, a working class defined and separated by the color line, and a racial social order. Race and Police corrects the Eurocentrism in the orthodox history of American police and in predominating critical theories of police. That orthodoxy rests on an origin story that begins with Sir Robert Peel and the London Metropolitan Police Service. Predating the Met by more than a century, America’s first police, often called slave patrols, did more than maintain order—it fabricated a racial order. Prior to their creation, all white citizens were conscripted to police all Blacks. Their participation in the coercive control of Blacks gave definition to their whiteness. Targeted as threats to the security of the economy and white society, being policed defined Blacks who, for the first time, were treated as a single racial group. The boundaries of whiteness were first established on the basis of who was required to regulate slaves, given a specific mandate to prevent Black insurrection, a mandate that remains core to the police role to this day.Trade Review“Brucato’s focus on the political construction of race in and through police does more than simply correct or reorder the narratives on race and policing, but fundamentally defines them. Race and Police makes clear contributions that are long overdue in the field.”— Mike King, author of When Riot Cops Are Not Enough: The Policing and Repression of Occupy Oakland (Rutgers Univ “Every abolitionist should read this book. Prison requires police, just as slavery required patrols. Prison seems inevitable, as did slavery. History, however, reveals no inevitable institutions, not even the Peculiar Institution. As Brucato meticulously demonstrates, the slave patrols were modern police. Why read him? Because abolition of slavery requires abolition of the police and the prison, just as much as it required abolition of the slave patrols. More importantly, the abolition of slavery is proof that policing and imprisonment aren't inevitable.”— Anthony Paul Farley, James Campbell Matthews Distinguished Professor of Jurisprudence at Albany Law SchoolTable of ContentsPreface Introduction Part I: Critical Theory of Race and Police 1. The Peculiar Institution of Police 2. The Peculiar Institution of Race Part II: The Police Law of Slavery 3. The Genesis of Race in Colonial Virginia 4. The First Black Slave Society 5. Acquiring a Slave Society Part III: Black Insurrection and White Counterinsurgency in Colonial America 6. A “Patroll” to Suppress Domestic Dangers 7. Policing the Chesapeake 8. Enemies of their Own Households Conclusion: Peculiar Institutions Acknowledgments Notes Index
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Rutgers University Press Race and Police: The Origin of Our Peculiar
Book SynopsisIn the United States, race and police were founded along with a capitalist economy dependent on the enslavement of workers of African descent. Race and Police builds a critical theory of American policing by analyzing a heterodox history of policing, drawn from the historiography of slavery and slave patrols. Beginning by tracing the historical origins of the police mandate in British colonial America, the book shows that the peculiar institution of racialized chattel slavery originated along with a novel, binary conception of race. On one side, for the first time Europeans from various nationalities were united in a single racial category. Inclusion in this category was necessary for citizenship. On the other, Blacks were branded as slaves, cast as social enemies, and assumed to be threats to the social order. The state determined not only that it would administer slavery, but that it would regulate slaves, authorizing the use of violence by agents of the state and white citizens to secure the social order. In doing so, slavery, citizenship, and police mutually informed one another, and together they produced racial capitalism, a working class defined and separated by the color line, and a racial social order. Race and Police corrects the Eurocentrism in the orthodox history of American police and in predominating critical theories of police. That orthodoxy rests on an origin story that begins with Sir Robert Peel and the London Metropolitan Police Service. Predating the Met by more than a century, America’s first police, often called slave patrols, did more than maintain order—it fabricated a racial order. Prior to their creation, all white citizens were conscripted to police all Blacks. Their participation in the coercive control of Blacks gave definition to their whiteness. Targeted as threats to the security of the economy and white society, being policed defined Blacks who, for the first time, were treated as a single racial group. The boundaries of whiteness were first established on the basis of who was required to regulate slaves, given a specific mandate to prevent Black insurrection, a mandate that remains core to the police role to this day.Trade Review“Brucato’s focus on the political construction of race in and through police does more than simply correct or reorder the narratives on race and policing, but fundamentally defines them. Race and Police makes clear contributions that are long overdue in the field.”— Mike King, author of When Riot Cops Are Not Enough: The Policing and Repression of Occupy Oakland (Rutgers Univ “Every abolitionist should read this book. Prison requires police, just as slavery required patrols. Prison seems inevitable, as did slavery. History, however, reveals no inevitable institutions, not even the Peculiar Institution. As Brucato meticulously demonstrates, the slave patrols were modern police. Why read him? Because abolition of slavery requires abolition of the police and the prison, just as much as it required abolition of the slave patrols. More importantly, the abolition of slavery is proof that policing and imprisonment aren't inevitable.”— Anthony Paul Farley, James Campbell Matthews Distinguished Professor of Jurisprudence at Albany Law SchoolTable of ContentsPreface Introduction Part I: Critical Theory of Race and Police 1. The Peculiar Institution of Police 2. The Peculiar Institution of Race Part II: The Police Law of Slavery 3. The Genesis of Race in Colonial Virginia 4. The First Black Slave Society 5. Acquiring a Slave Society Part III: Black Insurrection and White Counterinsurgency in Colonial America 6. A “Patroll” to Suppress Domestic Dangers 7. Policing the Chesapeake 8. Enemies of their Own Households Conclusion: Peculiar Institutions Acknowledgments Notes Index
£107.20
Rutgers University Press Rivers on Fire and Corporate Liars
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Rutgers University Press Rivers on Fire and Corporate Liars
£81.60
Page Two Books, Inc. Birds of All Feathers
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Page Two Books, Inc. No Safe Harbor The Inside Truth About
Book SynopsisStories of massive data breaches litter the 24-hour newsday headlines. Hackers and cybercrime syndicates are hitting a who's who of banks, retailers, law firms, and healthcare organizations: companies with sophisticated security systems designed to stop crime before it starts. They're also hitting companies that thought they were too small to matter. So how do cybercriminals continue to breach the defenses of the big companiesand why do they go after the small ones? And, most importantly, how can companies of all sizes protect themselves?Cybersecurity expert Mark Sangster deftly weaves together real-life cases in a thrilling narrative that illustrates the human complexities behind the scenes that can lead to companies throwing their digital front doors open to criminals. Within a security context, deep social engineering is the newest and biggest means of breaching our systems. Sangster shows readers that cybersecurity is not an IT problem to solveit is a business risk to ma
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Brepols N.V. Infanticide, Secular Justice, and Religious
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Bohlau Verlag Ordnung und Gewalt: Thomas Manns Josephroman und
Book SynopsisDas Alte Testament erzählt von Gründungsmythen, die das anfängliche Chaos bändigen, Recht und Ordnung schaffen und somit den Menschen und die ihn umgebende Welt verändern. Thomas Mann erzählt diese Mythen neu, spart hierbei jedoch Gott als Handelnden aus und legt den Kern dieser Ordnung frei: Gewalt. Was sind die Bedingungen von Ordnung, Recht und Gesetz? Wie entsteht aus dem Chaos, aus dem anfänglichen biblischen Tohuwabohu eine geordnete Welt, in der der Mensch seinen Platz als Individuum im Angesicht Gottes behauptet? Und was ist der Preis, der hierfür zu zahlen ist? Diese Fragen stellt Thomas Mann in seinem alttestamentarischen Werk, dem vierbändigen Josephroman (1926-1943) und der Erzählung Das Gesetz (1943). In dieser Arbeit, die beide Werke erstmals unter einer gemeinsamen Fragestellung betrachtet, werden Schlüsselszenen einem close reading unterzogen, die biblische Gründungsmythen (u.a. Kain und Abel, Exodus, die Zehn Gebote) neu erzählen, die Sinn und Ordnung in das Chaos bringen, dies jedoch stets vor dem Hintergrund zum Teil drastischer Gewaltakte. Indem hierbei ausnahmslos der Mensch und nicht Gott als Handelnder auftritt, wird gleichzeitig eine alternative Lesart des Alten Testaments präsentiert.
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V&R Unipress Menschenrechte Und Strafrecht: Beitrage Zur 4.
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CRIMENES DEL MALIGNO
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