Dangerous Spaces: Beyond the Racial Profile

Dangerous Spaces: Beyond the Racial Profile
ISBN-10
1440838259
ISBN-13
9781440838255
Category
Social Science
Pages
244
Language
English
Published
2016-10-24
Publisher
ABC-CLIO
Author
D. Marvin Jones

Description

An eye-opening, unapologetic explanation of what "racial profiling" is in modern-day America: systematic targeting of communities and placing of suspicion on populations, on the basis of not only ethnicity but also certain places that are linked to the social identity of that group. • Offers a novel framework for understanding the problem of racial profiling that explains how profiling actually involves the intersection of race and space • Provides concrete solutions in the form of a civil rights restoration act that addresses the problem of "racial profiling" through a set of innovative community controls on the deployment and power of police • Constitutes essential reading for students, lawyers, journalists, and teachers interested in issues of race and ethnicity as well as general readers wanting to learn about racial profiling in American society

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