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In Black Rage in New Orleans, Moore traces the shocking history of police corruption in the Crescent City from World War II to Hurricane Katrina and the concurrent rise of a large and energized black opposition to it. Moore explores a staggering array of NOPD abuses - police homicides, sexual violence against women, racial profiling, and complicity in drug deals, prostitution rings, burglaries, protection schemes, and gun smuggling - and the increasingly voceriferous calls for reform by the city's black community. The first book-length study of police brutality and African American protest in a major American city, Black Rage in New Orleans will prove essential for anyone interested in race relations in America's urban centers.

"For much of American history, the federal government has played a limited role in local police regulation. That all changed in 1994, when Congress passed a little known statute that permitted the US Attorney General to reform troubled police department. Since then, many of the nation's largest police departments - including those in Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, Washington, DC, Seattle, New Orleans, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Cleveland, and Albuquerque - have been subject to federal oversight. But until recently, we've known little about how this federal process works. Drawing on original interviews, court documents, statistical data, and media reports, this book provides the first comprehensive account of federal intervention in American police departments. It shows that, under the right circumstances, federal intervention is uniquely effective at combating misconduct in police departments. However, federal intervention is far from perfect. This book concludes by arguing that Congress should expand and improve federal oversight of policing"--

eingereicht von Schrempf Amalia-Xenia ; Literaturverzeichnis: Blatt 84-87 ; Paris-Lodron-Universität, Diplomarbeit, 2021 ; (VLID)6324914

The African Americans explores this particular ethnic group, presenting a remarkable array of valuable information, including entertainment, work, education, and the contributions and conflicts of African Americans to society. This informative new volume details their social history, customs, and traditions and is enhanced by further reading lists, box features, black-and-white photographs, and more

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Introduction -- I History and Context of African American Studies -- 2 Danny Glover: Memories from 1968 -- 3 Pedagogy and Decolonization: Historical Refl ections on Origins of Black Studies in the United States -- 4 Toward Radical Pan-African Pedagogy and Civic Education -- 5 The "Field and Function" of Africana Studies: Insights from the Life and Writings of W. E. B. Du Bois -- II African American Studies: Theories and Methodologies -- 6 African American Studies: Discourses and Paradigms -- 7 Afrocentricity and Africology: Theory and Practice in the Discipline -- 8 Revisiting White Privilege: Pedagogy in Black Studies -- 9 Social Science Research in Africana Studies: Ethical Protocols and Guidelines -- 10 Africana Studies and Oral History: A Critical Assessment -- III Social Responsibility, Service Learning and Activism -- 11 Africana Studies and Community Service: Using the STRENGTH Model -- 12 Africana Studies and Civic Engagement -- 13 Danny Glover and Manning Marable: Activism Through Art and Scholarship -- 14 Contemporary Women of the African Diaspora: Identity, Artistic Expression and Activism -- IV Selected Areas of Scholarship in the Discipline -- 15 He Wasn't Man Enough: Black Male Studies and the Ethnological Targeting of Black Men in Nineteenth-Century Suffragist Thought -- 16 Reading Black Through the Looking Glass: Decoding the Encoding in African Diasporic Literature -- 17 Diversity and Representations of Blackness in Comic Books -- 18 Black Athletes and the Problematic of Integration in Sport -- 19 African American Music: The Ties That Bind -- 20 Afrofuturism and the Question of Visual Reparations -- 21 The Black Studies Movement in Britain -- Index

From the Publisher: "Read him his rights." We all recognize this line from cop dramas. But what happens afterward? In this book, Richard Leo sheds light on a little-known corner of our criminal justice system-the police interrogation. Incriminating statements are necessary to solve crimes, but suspects almost never have reason to provide them. Therefore, as Leo shows, crime units have developed sophisticated interrogation methods that rely on persuasion, manipulation, and deception to move a subject from denial to admission, serving to shore up the case against him. Ostensibly aimed at uncovering truth, the structure of interrogation requires that officers act as an arm of the prosecution. Skillful and fair interrogation allows authorities to capture criminals and deter future crime. But Leo draws on extensive research to argue that confessions are inherently suspect and that coercive interrogation has led to false confession and wrongful conviction. He looks at police evidence in the court, the nature and disappearance of the brutal "third degree," the reforms of the mid-twentieth century, and how police can persuade suspects to waive their Miranda rights. An important study of the criminal justice system, Police Interrogation and American Justice raises unsettling questions. How should police be permitted to interrogate when society needs both crime control and due process? How can order be maintained yet justice served?

This article presents African Americans' criticisms of how they are portrayed in daytime serials. In addition to desiring an increase in the numbers portrayed, critics condemned the whitewashing of African American characters and storylines and the lack of diverse roles. Because the findings support the existence of a racially separate world view, the author suggests that African American viewing practices should be analyzed within a framework of historical and contemporary black culture.