Hope and Struggle in the Policed City: Black Criminalization and Resistance in Philadelphia by Dirkson, Menika B.
Hope and Struggle in the Policed City: Black Criminalization and Resistance in Philadelphia by Dirkson, Menika B.

Hope and Struggle in the Policed City: Black Criminalization and Resistance in Philadelphia

Explores how concerns about poverty-induced Black crime cultivated by police, journalists, and city officials sparked a rise...
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Author: Menika B. Dirkson
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Hope and Struggle in the Policed City: Black Criminalization and Resistance in Philadelphia by Dirkson, Menika B.

Hope and Struggle in the Policed City: Black Criminalization and Resistance in Philadelphia

$161.38
Hope and Struggle in the Policed City: Black Criminalization and Resistance in Philadelphia by Dirkson, Menika B.

Hope and Struggle in the Policed City: Black Criminalization and Resistance in Philadelphia

$161.38
Author: Menika B. Dirkson
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Explores how concerns about poverty-induced Black crime cultivated by police, journalists, and city officials sparked a rise in tough-on-crime policing in Philadelphia

During the Great Migration of African Americans to the North, Philadelphia's police department, journalists, and city officials used news media to create and reinforce narratives that criminalized Black people and led to police brutality, segregation, and other dehumanizing consequences for Black communities. Over time, city officials developed a system of racial capitalism in which City Council financially divested from social welfare programs and instead invested in the police department, promoting a "tough on crime" policing program that generated wealth for Philadelphia's tax base in an attempt to halt white flight from the city.

Drawing from newspapers, census records, oral histories, interviews, police investigation reports, housing project pamphlets, maps, and more, Hope and Struggle in the Policed City draws the connective line between the racial bias African Americans faced as they sought opportunity in the North and the over-policing of their communities, of which the effects are still visible today. Menika B. Dirkson posits that the tough-on-crime framework of this time embedded itself within every aspect of society, leading to enduring systemic issues of hyper-surveillance, the use of excessive force, and mass incarceration.

Hope and Struggle in the Policed City makes important contributions to our understanding of how a city government's budgetary strategy can function as racial capitalism that relies on criminal scapegoating. Most cogently, it illustrates how this perpetuates the cycle of poverty-induced crime, inflates rates of incarceration and police brutality, and marginalizes poor people of color.

Author: Menika B. Dirkson
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 07/23/2024
Pages: 328
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.10h x 5.90w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9781479823987

About the Author
Menika B. Dirkson is Assistant Professor of African American History at Morgan State University.
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