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Police Power and Race Riots

Urban Unrest in Paris and New York

By: Cathy Lisa Schneider

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Police Power and Race Riots

Urban Unrest in Paris and New York

By: Cathy Lisa Schneider

Cathy Lisa Schneider looks at the relationship between racialized police violence and urban upheaval in impoverished neighborhoods of New York and greater Paris, and considers some of the changes that have made American cities less riot-prone today.

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081222390X

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Police Power and Race Riots

Urban Unrest in Paris and New York

By: Cathy Lisa Schneider

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Police Power and Race Riots

Urban Unrest in Paris and New York

By: Cathy Lisa Schneider

Three weeks after Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a New York City police officer shot and killed a fifteen-year-old black youth, inciting the first of almost a decade of black and Latino riots throughout the United States. In October 2005, French police chased three black and Arab teenagers into an electrical substation outside Paris, culminating in the fatal electrocution of two of them. Fires blazed in Parisian suburbs and housing projects throughout France for three consecutive weeks. Cathy Lisa Schneider explores the political, legal, and economic conditions that led to violent confrontations in neighborhoods on opposite sides of the Atlantic half a century apart. Police Power and Race Riots traces the history of urban upheaval in New York and greater Paris, focusing on the interaction between police and minority youth. Schneider shows that riots erupted when elites activated racial boundaries, police engaged in racialized violence, and racial minorities lacked alternative avenues of redress. She also demonstrates how local activists who cut their teeth on the American race riots painstakingly constructed social movement organizations with standard nonviolent repertoires for dealing with police violence. These efforts, along with the opening of access to courts of law for ethnic and racial minorities, have made riots a far less common response to police violence in the United States today. Rich in historical and ethnographic detail, Police Power and Race Riots offers a compelling account of the processes that fan the flames of urban unrest and the dynamics that subsequently quell the fires.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812209869

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9780812209860

Shantytown Protest in Pinochet's Chile

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Shantytown Protest in Pinochet's Chile

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A study of Chile's shantytown resistance testifies to the power of popular struggles.

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Temple University Press

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1439905460

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9781439905463

Shantytown Protest in Pinochet's Chile

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Shantytown Protest in Pinochet's Chile

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In 1973 armed forces launched a violent attack against the Chilean presidential palace and Santiago's slums and shantytowns. For ten years, only the Catholic Church was able to defy the military regime. Then, in 1983, students, workers, and shantytown residents stormed the streets demanding the resignation of Augusto Pinochet. The protests raged for three years and, in 1989, democratic elections were held. The following year a new civilian government took office.Cathy Lisa Schneider examines this democratic transition from the bottom up, looking at the struggles of poor people to create and sustain organized resistance, to risk their lives to fight tyranny. Both an oral history based on over a hundred interviews collected in shantytowns and a comparative sociological study that explores political differences among different shantytowns in Santiago, this book analyzes the context in which the urban poor make choices about their lives, and the political histories that shape their vision. Author note: Cathy Lisa Schneider is Assistant Professor at the School for International Studies at American University.

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Police Power and Race Riots

Police Power and Race Riots

Police Power and Race Riots

Police Power and Race Riots

Shantytown Protest in Pinochet's Chile

Shantytown Protest in Pinochet's Chile

Shantytown Protest in Pinochet's Chile

Shantytown Protest in Pinochet's Chile

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