The Routledge History of Police Brutality in America

Thomas Aiello is professor of history and Africana studies at Valdosta State University. He is the author of more than 20 books and dozens of peer-reviewed journal articles. He holds PhDs in history and anthrozoology.

Part 1: Police Brutality and Race Before World War II






Slavery and the Transformation of Southern Policing
GLENN MCNAIR




Policing in Gilded Age Urban Hubs
MALCOLM HOLMES




Mob Brutality in Robert Charles’s New Orleans
ADAM MALKA




Urban Policing and Race Riots in the Era of World War I and the Red Summer
ADAM HODGES




"Killers Who Hide Behind Badges": Race and Police Brutality In The Jim Crow South

JEFFREY S. ADLER

Part 2: Police Brutality and Unionism in the United States






Policing the Nineteenth-Century American Labor Movement
MATTHEW HILD




Police Unions and Violence in the 20th Century United States

LISA PHILLIPS

Part 3: Police Brutality and Race After World War II






Race and Policing in the World War II Urban Riots
MARGARITA ARAGON




American Policing and the Struggle for Black Civic Rights
JONATHAN SIMON




Walking the Tightrope of Self-Defense:
Imagery, Rhetoric, and Commemoration of the Black Panther Party

CHERYL X. DONG




"I don’t mind dying":

Police Violence, Resistance, and the Urban Uprisings of the 1960s

MAX FELKER-KANTOR

Part 4: Police Brutality Against Immigrant and Ethnic Groups






Vigilante Policing in Asian American Communities
in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

STEPH HINNERSHITZ




Police Brutality against Mexican Americans in the Twentieth Century
LORENA OROPEZA




Islamophobia: Supplement for Anti-Black Racism and Policing
STEPHEN SHEEHI




From A. Mitchell Palmer to Joe McCarthy:

Police Brutality In the Fight Against Communism

REGIN SCHMIDT

Part 5: Police Brutality and Protest in the Era of Vietnam






Behind the Billy Club:
Chicago Police and the Violence at the 1968 Democratic National Convention

FRANK KUSCH




Police Brutality and the Student Movements of the 1960s

KATHRYN SCHUMAKER

Part 6: The Legal and Legislative History of Police Brutality






Police Brutality and the Nonhuman
THOMAS AIELLO




Brutality at the Bar: The Supreme Court and Police Misconduct
THOMAS AIELLO




Chasing the Illusion of Police Reform under Capitalism
JILLIAN ALDEBRON AND RODNEY D. GREEN




President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing

FREDERICK W. TURNER II AND BRENT HOOSAC

Part 7: Cultural Representations in Literature, Music and Film






Not Only Compton: Gangster Rap, Policing, and Protest
FELICIA A. VIATOR




Police Violence in Film from Blaxploitation to New Black Realism
KATHARINE BAUSCH




Police Brutality and the Black Arts Movement
JAMES E. SMETHURST




From Dragnet to Brooklyn 99: How Cop Shows Excuse, Exalt and Erase Police Brutality

SUSAN BANDES

Part 8: Alterity and Brutality in the Late-Twentieth Century






Policing, the Bar, and Resistance
WILLIAM ELIJAH HICKS




Anti-Brutality Activism and Neighborhood Anti-Crime Activism During the 1970s
CHRISTOPHER LOWEN AGEE




The Multiple Meanings of the Assault on Rodney King :
Revisiting Grassroots Discourse After the Los Angeles Rebellion of 1992

KAMRAN AFARY




Police Brutality in 1990s New York City:
The Scars of Zero Tolerance and the Struggles for Justice

PAULA IOANIDE




Enacting and Enabling Violence: Policing Indigenous Communities

BARBARA PERRY

Part 9: Police Brutality in the Twenty-First Century






Make Visible:
Akua Njeri, Breonna Taylor, and Critical Amplification of Police Brutality

AAMINAH NORRIS, NALYA A. F. RODRIGUEZ, MAHA ELSINBAWI,

ABIGAIL COHEN, AND DALE ALLENDER




#BlackLivesMatter
LOUIS MARAJ




Smartphones as Technologies of Accountability:
Exposing and Investigating Police Brutality Using Smartphone Cameras

AJAY SANDHU




Police Brutality and the Militarization of Policing

LESLEY J. WOOD

Part 10: Conceptual and Pragmatic Issues in Police Brutality






To End Police Brutality, We Must End the Police
MEGHAN G. McDOWELL




Police Terror as Totality:
Reformism and the Ensemble of Counterinsurgency

DYLAN RODRIGUEZ




Police Unions: The Police Shield for Abuse and Brutality in America
PERRY LYLE




All It Takes Is One Block:

A Case Study of the History of Police Brutality in Public Health

ALYASAH ALI SEWELL