D. Marvin Jones

Dangerous Spaces (eBook, ePUB)

Beyond the Racial Profile

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

In 21st-century, post-civil rights era America, "race" has become complex and intersectional. It is no longer simply a matter of color-black versus white-contends author D. Marvin Jones, but equally a matter of space or "geographies of fear," which he defines as spaces in which different groups are particularly vulnerable to stereotyping by law enforcement: blacks in the urban ghetto, Mexicans at the functional equivalent of the border, Arabs at the airport.

Dangerous Spaces: Beyond the Racial Profile demonstrates how society has constructed a set of threat narratives in which certain widespread problems-immigration, drugs, gangs, and terrorism, for example-have been racialized and explains the historical and social origins of these racializing threat narratives. The book identifies how these narratives have led directly to relentless profiling that results in arrest, deportation, massive surveillance, or even death for members of suspect populations. Readers will come to understand how the problem of profiling is not merely a problem of institutional bias and individual decision making, but also a deeply rooted cultural issue stemming from the processes of meaning-making and identity construction.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216071747
• Artikelnr.: 68164996

Autorenporträt

D. Marvin Jones is professor of law at the University of Miami, where he has taught constitutional law and criminal procedure for more than 20 years. He has published numerous articles in leading law journals, including those of Georgetown, the University of Michigan, and Vanderbilt University. His published work includes Praeger's Dangerous Spaces: Beyond the Racial Profile; Fear of a Hip-Hop Planet: America's New Dilemma; and Race, Sex, and Suspicion: The Myth of the Black Male. He received the James Thomas prize from Yale University, recognizing him as one the nation's foremost scholars on civil rights issues.

D. Marvin Jones is professor of law at the University of Miami, where he has taught constitutional law and criminal procedure for more than 20 years.

Inhaltsangabe

Series Foreword Preface Introduction Chapter 1 Urban Nightmares: The Social
Construction of the Inner City Chapter 2 New Slaves: Walking While Black,
Shopping While Black, Working While Black, and Learning While Black in
Urban America Chapter 3 From Stop-and-Frisk to a State of Siege: A Play in
Three Acts Chapter 4 Between the World and Unarmed Black Men: The Killings
on Our Streets and the Circle of History Chapter 5 "Alien" Nation: The
Social Construction of the Latin Threat Chapter 6 Landscapes of Suspicion:
Race, Citizenship, and Hidden Borders Chapter 7 "An Enemy Within": The FBI,
COINTELPRO, and the Browning of Islam Chapter 8 Drawing a Line in the Sand:
Citizens, Anti-Citizens, and the War on Terror Conclusion Notes
Bibliography Index