America on Fire The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 60’s - Elizabeth Hinton
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Civilization
History
Pulitzer Prize Finalist
Race Relations
Sociology
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What began in spring 2020 as local protests in response to the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police quickly exploded into a massive nationwide movement. Millions of mostly young people defiantly flooded into the nation’s streets, demanding an end to police brutality and to the broader, systemic repression of Black people and other people of color. To many observers, the protests appeared to be without precedent in their scale and persistence. Yet, as the acclaimed historian Elizabeth Hinton demonstrates in America on Fire, the events of 2020 had clear precursors—and any attempt to understand our current crisis requires a reckoning with the recent past. Even in the aftermath of Donald Trump, many Americans consider the decades since the civil rights movement in the mid-1960s as a story of progress toward greater inclusiveness and equality. Hinton’s sweeping narrative uncovers an altogether different history, taking us on a troubling journey from Detroit in 1967 and Miami in 1980 to Los Angeles in 1992 and beyond to chart the persistence of systemic racism and one of its primary consequences, the so-called urban riot. Hinton offers a critical corrective: the word riot was nothing less than a racist trope applied to events that can only be properly understood as rebellions— explosions of collective resistance to an unequal and violent order. As she suggests, if rebellion and the conditions that precipitated it never disappeared, the optimistic story of a post–Jim Crow United States no longer holds. Black rebellion, America on Fire powerfully illustrates, was born in response to poverty and exclusion, but most immediately in reaction to police violence. In 1968, President Lyndon Johnson launched the “War on Crime,” sending militarized police forces into impoverished Black neighborhoods. Facing increasing surveillance and brutality, residents threw rocks and Molotov cocktails at officers, plundered local businesses, and vandalized exploitative institutions. Hinton draws on exclusive sources to uncover a previously hidden geography of violence in smaller American cities, from York, Pennsylvania, to Cairo, Illinois, to Stockton, California. The central lesson from these eruptions?that police violence invariably leads to community violence?continues to escape policymakers, who respond by further criminalizing entire groups instead of addressing underlying socioeconomic causes. The results are the hugely expanded policing and prison regimes that shape the lives of so many Americans today. Presenting a new framework for understanding our nation’s enduring strife, America on Fire is also a warning: rebellions will surely continue until an oppressive system is finally remade on the principles of justice and equality.
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This post has 16 comments with rating of 3.3/5
January 18th, 2022
Apt title, as they seem to have a certain affinity for burning down their own neighborhoods and then checking to see if the people in their gated suburban communities care. (Hint: They don’t).
January 18th, 2022
Freaking race hustlers just won’t let things go.
January 18th, 2022
I love how anything about race gets the white supremacists foaming at the mouth and crying. “WAAH! WAAH!IT’S RACE BAITING! YOU’RE THE RACIST, NOT ME!!WAAH!”
What are you thick f**ks doing on website with books on it anyway? You’ve never read a book in your lives.
January 18th, 2022
If only the Government of Abe Lincoln hadn’t overreached - the freedom loving patriotic South could have shown us how successful the U.S.A could have become
January 18th, 2022
The south was so successful that they couldn’t even win a war it started.
January 18th, 2022
Thanks uploaded!
January 18th, 2022
Thanks uploader!
January 19th, 2022
redstar1970-You mean like the US does constantly? Ahem…Afghanistan…Vietnam…Korea.
January 19th, 2022
quivered-You OK son? Need us to call 911 for ya?
January 19th, 2022
quivered-It is Liberals who call other blacks RACISTS. Not to mention you also call Black Republican white supremacists. And you are aware that this site is for audio books, correct? Ones that are told to you and not read, correct? Sorry the guy you voted for is one of those white supremacists. And what does that make you, son. Let me tell you. A white supremacists. Yup.
January 19th, 2022
Thanks for this and t’other one.
January 19th, 2022
@osmium @adequaespeakers
very welcome enjoy!
January 19th, 2022
@sable your point being what? That you don’t have even a tiny grasp of history?
The US didn’t start the Korean War or the Vietnam War.
January 19th, 2022
It’s completely understandable why black people are outraged in the US. I’ll definitely give this book a shot.
January 23rd, 2022
So we’re just ignoring that DoJ report by Obama and Holder which set out to find racial discrimination in law enforcement against blacks but instead found a slight tendency toward leniency in comparison to whites, but blacks commit so much crime and fight the cops so often they still have bad stats.
And we’re just forgetting that in 2014 blacks demanded that all police have body cameras which then revealed that nearly all altercations between blacks and police were due to action by blacks rather than the reverse even as the number of altercations increased. To the point that BLM wanted the cameras removed back in 2017 because blacks were getting more harshly punished when their monkeyshines were recorded.
And we’re forgetting the last tow years were more than a hundred thousand more blacks than usual died or disappeared after they reduced or prohibited policing of their extra legal activities in many cities.
Good to know.
June 7th, 2023
Centuries of slavery, systemic racism, white people who put it in practice in charge of every western imperialist country < some keyboard warrior taking talking points from right wing billionaires
the calendar says 2023 but it feels like 1923. If AI becomes sentient its gonna run laps around all us apes
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