Black Rage in New Orleans : Police Brutality and African American Activism from World War II to Hurricane Katrina /

In Black Rage in New Orleans, Moore traces the shocking history of police corruption in the Crescent City from World War II to Hurricane Katrina and the concurrent rise of a large and energized black opposition to it. Moore explores a staggering array of NOPD abuses - police homicides, sexual violen...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Moore, Leonard N., 1971-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Race relations.
Police-community relations.
African Americans > Social conditions.
Relations police-collectivite > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orleans > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Noirs americains > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orleans > Conditions sociales > 20e siecle.
Police-community relations > Louisiana > New Orleans > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Louisiana > New Orleans > Social conditions > 20th century.
Louisiana > New Orleans.
New Orleans (La.) > Race relations > History > 20th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: police violence, New Orleans, and the postwar urban landscape
  • Negro police will aid in law and order: the fight for black police in the Crescent City
  • Or does it explode?: the black freedom struggle comes to New Orleans
  • "We want an end to police brutality": the Black Panthers, desire, and police repression
  • The politics of self-defense: Mark Essex, the soul patrol, and black vigilantism
  • The right to organize: the Black Organization of Police, mass protest, and the city council hearings
  • Black power politics: Ernest "Dutch" Morial and the limits of police reform
  • "We are living in a police state": the Algiers tragedy, the maturation of community protest, and the politics of a civilian review board
  • Black-on-black crime: the consequences of white flight, the war on drugs, and political indifference
  • "A new day in Babylon": the professionalization of the New Orleans Police Department and the claiming of urban public space.

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