Slow and Sudden Violence: Why and When Uprisings Occur - Couverture souple

Hyra, Derek

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0520401476 ISBN 13 : 9780520401471

Editeur : University of California Press, 2024

Synopsis

Exposing the roots of racial unrest that consistently harm Black communities

In Slow and Sudden Violence, Derek Hyra links police violence to an ongoing cycle of racial and spatial urban redevelopment repression. By delving into the real estate histories of St. Louis and Baltimore, he shows how housing and community development policies advance neighborhood inequality by segregating, gentrifying, and displacing Black communities.

Repeated decisions to "upgrade" the urban fabric and uproot low-income Black populations have resulted in pockets of poverty inhabited by people experiencing displacement trauma and police surveillance. These interconnected sets of divestments and accumulated frustrations have contributed to eruptions of violence in response to tragic, unjust police killings. To confront American unrest, Hyra urges that we end racialized policing, stop Black community destruction and displacement, and reduce neighborhood inequality.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Derek Hyra is Professor of Public Administration and Policy and founding director of the Metropolitan Policy Center at American University. His research focuses on neighborhood change, with an emphasis on housing, urban politics, and race.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0520401476
• ISBN 13: 9780520401471
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 365
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• Personne responsable: non disponible