To Poison a Nation: The Murder of Robert Charles and the Rise of Jim Crow Policing in America
por Baker, Andrew
- Novo
- Capa dura
- first
- Condição
- Novo/New
- ISBN 10
- 162097603X
- ISBN 13
- 9781620976036
- Livreiro
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West Dennis, Massachusetts, United States
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To Poison a Nation: The Murder of Robert Charles and the Rise of Jim Crow Policing in America by Andrew Baker
On a steamy Monday evening in 1900, New Orleans police officers confronted a Black man named Robert Charles as he sat on a doorstep in a working-class neighborhood where racial tensions were running high. What happened next would trigger the largest manhunt in the city's history, while white mobs took to the streets, attacking and murdering innocent Black residents during three days of bloody rioting. Finally cornered, Charles exchanged gunfire with the police in a spectacular gun battle witnessed by thousands.
Building outward from these dramatic events, To Poison a Nation connects one city's trouble past to the modern crisis of white supremacy and police brutality. Historian Andrew Baker immerses readers in a boisterous world of disgruntled laborers, crooked machine bosses, scheming businessmen, and the Black radical who tossed a flaming torch into the powder keg. Baker recreates a city that was home to the nation's largest African American community, a place where racial antagonism was hardly a foregone conclusion -- but which ultimately became the crucible of a novel form of racialized violence: modern policing.
A major new work of history, To Poison a Nation reveals disturbing connections between the Jim Crow past and police violence in our own times.
New Press, Hardcover, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 2021
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- Livreiro
- I Cannot Live Without Books (US)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 1078
- Título
- To Poison a Nation: The Murder of Robert Charles and the Rise of Jim Crow Policing in America
- Autor
- Baker, Andrew
- Estado do livro
- Novo
- Condição de sobrecapa
- New
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Encadernação
- Capa dura
- ISBN 10
- 162097603X
- ISBN 13
- 9781620976036
- Editorial
- New Press
- Data de publicação
- 2021
- Catálogos de livreiros
- Black Studies; History: United States, 20th Century; True Crime;
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