Daanika Gordon

Policing the Racial Divide (eBook, PDF)

Urban Growth Politics and the Remaking of Segregation

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

2023 Edwin H. Sutherland Book Award Winner

A behind-the-scenes account of the harsh realities of policing in a segregated city

For thirteen months, Daanika Gordon shadowed police officers in two districts in "River City," a profoundly segregated rust belt metropolis. She found that officers in predominantly white
neighborhoods provided responsive service and engaged in community problem-solving, while officers in predominantly Black communities reproduced long-standing patterns of over-policing and under-protection. Such differences have marked US policing throughout its history, but policies that were supposed to alleviate racial tensions in River City actually widened the racial divides. Policing the Racial Divide tells story of how race, despite the best intentions, often dominates the way policing unfolds in cities across America.

Drawing on in-depth interviews and hundreds of hours of ethnographic observation, Gordon offers a behind-the-scenes account of how the police are reconfiguring segregated landscapes. She illuminates an underexplored source of racially disparate policing: the role of law enforcement in urban growth politics. Many postindustrial cities are increasing the divisions of segregation, Gordon argues, by investing in downtowns, gentrified neighborhoods, and entertainment corridors, while framing marginalized central city neighborhoods as sources of criminal and civic threat that must be contained and controlled.

Gordon paints a sobering picture of modern-day segregation, and how the police enforce its racial borders, showing us two separate, unequal sides of the same city: one where rich, white neighborhoods are protected, and another where poor, Black neighborhoods are punished.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The American University in Cairo Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781479814060
• Artikelnr.: 62767791

Autorenporträt

Daanika Gordon is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Tufts University. She is the author of Policing the Racial Divide: Urban Growth Politics and the Remaking of Segregation, winner of the 2023 Edwin H. Sutherland Book Award, Law and Society Division, Society for the Study of Social Problems.