Stop Trying to Fix Policing
Lessons Learned from the Front Lines of Black Liberation
1st Edition
Published on 16. December 2020
130 pages
978-1-4985-8951-2 (ISBN)
Description
In Stop Trying to Fix Policing: Lessons Learned from the Front Lines of Black
Liberation, Tony Gaskew guides readers through the phenomena of police abolition,
using the cultural lens of the Black radical tradition. The author weaves an electrifying
combination of critical race theory, spiritual inheritance, decolonization,
self-determination, and armed resistance, into a critical autoethnographic journey that
illuminates the rituals of revolution required for dismantling the institution of American
policing. Stop Trying to Fix Policing is an essential work for anyone who wants to go
beyond the rhetoric of police reform, to the next step: contributing to the formation of a
world without policing.
Liberation, Tony Gaskew guides readers through the phenomena of police abolition,
using the cultural lens of the Black radical tradition. The author weaves an electrifying
combination of critical race theory, spiritual inheritance, decolonization,
self-determination, and armed resistance, into a critical autoethnographic journey that
illuminates the rituals of revolution required for dismantling the institution of American
policing. Stop Trying to Fix Policing is an essential work for anyone who wants to go
beyond the rhetoric of police reform, to the next step: contributing to the formation of a
world without policing.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-4985-8951-2 (9781498589512)
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Person
Tony Gaskew is professor of criminal justice, affiliate faculty of Africana studies, director of the criminal justice program, and founding director of the prison education program at the University of Pittsburgh, Bradford.
Content
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Learning to Speak the Language of Police Abolition
Chapter 2: Unfriending Policing
Chapter 3: Decolonizing the State Narrative
Chapter 4: Community Self-Determination
Chapter 5: Black Armed Resistance
References
Index
About the Author
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Learning to Speak the Language of Police Abolition
Chapter 2: Unfriending Policing
Chapter 3: Decolonizing the State Narrative
Chapter 4: Community Self-Determination
Chapter 5: Black Armed Resistance
References
Index
About the Author
