7535383Wildcat of the Streetshttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/wildcat-of-the-streets-9781512828009/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/7155112/image.jpg?v=638836022676370000878976MXNUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.InStock/Ebooks/How Black youth in Detroit made claims for political equality over and against the new order of community policingThe criminalization of Black youth was central to policing in urban America during the civil rights era and continued in Detroit even after the rise of Black political control in the 1970s. Wildcat of the Streets documents how the community policing approach of Mayor Coleman Young (19741993)including neighborhood police stations, affirmative action hiring policies, and public participation in law enforcement initiativestransformed Detroit, long considered the nations symbol of racial inequality and urban crisis, into a crucial site of experimentation in policing while continuing to subject many Black Detroiters to police brutality and repression.In response, young people in the 1970s and 1980s drew on the citys storied history of labor radicalism as well as contemporary shopfloor struggles to wage a wildcat of the streets, consisting of street disturbances, decentralized gang activity, and complex organizations of the informal economy. In this revelatory new history of the social life of cities, Michael Stauch mines a series of evocative interviews conducted with the participants to trace how Black youth made claims for political equality over and against the new order of community policing.Centering the perspective of criminalized and crime-committing young people, Wildcat of the Streets is an original interpretation of police reform, the long struggle for Black liberation, and the politics of cities in the age of community policing....7153079Wildcat of the Streets878976https://www.gandhi.com.mx/wildcat-of-the-streets-9781512828009/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/7155112/image.jpg?v=638836022676370000InStockMXN99999PR_DIEbook2025Inglés