Hope and Struggle in the Policed City: Black Criminalization and Resistance in Philadelphia by Menika B. Dirkson

Hope and Struggle in the Policed City: Black Criminalization and Resistance in Philadelphia

Menika B. Dirkson

352 pages hardcover

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Explores how concerns about poverty-induced Black crime cultivated by police, journalists, and city officials sparked a rise in tough-on-crime policing in PhiladelphiaDuring the Great Migration of African Americans to the North, Philadelphia’s pol...

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