America on fire : from the War on Poverty to the War on Crime, the making of Mass Incarceration in America

Hinton, Elizabeth Kai, 1983-2022

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Between 1964 and 1972, the United States endured domestic violence on a scale not seen since the Civil War. During these eight years, Black residents responded to police brutality and systemic racism by throwing punches and Molotov cocktails at police officers, plundering local businesses and vandalising exploitative institutions. Ever since, Americans have been living in a nation and national culture created, in part, by the extreme violence of this period. In this book, acclaimed professor Elizabeth Hinton draws on previously untapped sources to unravel this extraordinary history for the first time, arguing that we cannot understand the civil rights struggle without coming to terms with the astonishing violence, and hugely expanded policing regime, that followed it.