Policing Los Angeles : Race, Resistance, and the Rise of the LAPD /

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"Max Felker-Kantor narrates the dynamic history of policing, antipolice abuse movements, race, and politics in Los Angeles from the 1965 Watts uprising to the 1992 Los Angeles rebellion. Using the explosion of two large-scale uprisings in Los Angeles as bookends, Felker-Kantor highlights the ra...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Felker-Kantor, Max (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Los Angeles (Calif.). > Police Department.
Los Angeles (Calif.). > Police Department > History > 20th century.
Race relations.
Politics and government.
Police administration.
Police.
Discrimination in law enforcement.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
Discrimination dans l'application des lois > Californie > Los Angeles > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Discrimination in law enforcement > California > Los Angeles > History > 20th century.
Police administration > California > Los Angeles > History > 20th century.
Police > California > Los Angeles > History > 20th century.
California > Los Angeles.
Los Angeles (Calif.) > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Los Angeles (Calif.) > Politics and government > 20th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"Max Felker-Kantor narrates the dynamic history of policing, antipolice abuse movements, race, and politics in Los Angeles from the 1965 Watts uprising to the 1992 Los Angeles rebellion. Using the explosion of two large-scale uprisings in Los Angeles as bookends, Felker-Kantor highlights the racism at the heart of the city's expansive police power through a range of previously unused and rare archival sources. His book is a ... timely account of the transformation in police power, the convergence of interests in support of law and order policies, and African American and Mexican American resistance to police violence after the Watts uprising"--Provided by publisher
Physical Description:1 online resource (392 pages).
ISBN:9781469646855

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