Fight the Power

Gregory Parks, a trained psychologist and lawyer, is Associate Dean and Professor of Law at Wake Forest University School of Law. He has authored or edited eleven books including A Pledge with Purpose: Black Sororities and Fraternities and the Fight for Equality (New York University Press, 2020). Frank Rudy Cooper is William S. Boyd Professor and Director, Program on Race, Gender & Policing, UNLV Boyd School of Law. He is an expert in the intersectionality of identities and policing. His extensive publications include Masculinities and the Law: A Multidimensional Approach (New York University Press 2012).

Introduction; Part I. Policing: 1. From 'Fuck tha Police' to defund the police: a polemic, with elements of pragmatism and accommodation, hopefully not fatal, as black people hope about encounters with the police Paul Butler; 2. Hip hop and traffic stops Henry L. Chambers, Jr.; 3. 'Black Cop': it's a blue thing (or is it?) Kami Chavis; 4. 'Illegal Search': race, personhood, and policing Roger A. Fairfax, Jr.; 5. 'Cops Shot the Kid': police brutality, mass incarceration, and the reasonableness doctrine in criminal law Kristin Henning; Part II. Imprisonment: 6. Trauma andré douglas pond cummings; 7. Black steel in the hour of chaos Gregory S. Parks; Part III. Genders: 8. Roxanne Shanté's 'Independent Woman': making space for women in hip hop Lolita Buckner Innis; 9. From the 1930s to the 2020s: what ice cube's song 'Endangered Species' meant for four generations of black males Robert Pervine, Kevin Brown, Charles Westerhaus, and Kynton Grays; 10. The master's tools will not dismantle the master's house: hip hop, young M.A., and gender norms Zoe Smith-Holladay and Catherine Smith; Part IV. Protests: 11. 'Black Rage' and the architecture of racial oppression Deborah Archer; 12. Abolition as reparations: 'This is America' and the anatomy of a modern protest anthem Brie McLemore and Margaret Eby; 13. The message: resisting cultures of poverty in urban America Etienne C. Toussaint; 14. 'Just To Get By': poverty, racism, and smoking through the lens of Talib Kweli and Nina Simone's music Ruqaiijah Yearby.