Black lives and policing: The larger context of ghettoization
Black lives and policing: The larger context of ghettoization
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DOI：
10.1080/07352166.2017.1328977
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发表时间：
2017-01-01
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Oakley, Deirdre
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作者：
Logan, John R.;Oakley, Deirdre
在20世纪60年代发生了一系列市中心骚乱之后，林登·约翰逊总统任命了国家公民无序咨询委员会(Kerner Commission)。该委员会1968年发布的报告发布几个月后，马丁·路德·金遇刺身亡，S得出了一个著名的结论，即美国正在走向不同的社会，一个黑人，一个白人。近年来，另一种版本的种族主义暴力引起了公众的关注：警察系统性的暴行，以及警察一再杀害手无寸铁的黑人和布朗男子，催生了一场新的民权运动，宣称黑人的生命也很重要。现在，主要公职人员谴责这种暴力行为并承认其种族内容是标准做法，但刑事定罪和部门纪律很少。这篇评论文章让人们重新关注科纳委员会呼吁的制度化种族主义，认为偶尔甚至长期的警察暴力是一种结果，而不是核心问题。一个更根本的问题是维持治安的常规职能--通过空间遏制，保护美国主流不受其“犹太人区”劣势的影响。
President Lyndon Johnson's appointment of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorder (Kerner Commission) followed a series of inner-city riots in the 1960s. The commission's 1968 report, issued months before Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, assassination, famously concluded that the United States was moving toward separate societies, one Black and one White. In recent years, another version of racialized violence has garnered public attention: systemic police brutality and repeated killings of unarmed Black and Brown men by police, spawning a new civil rights movement proclaiming Black Lives Matter. Condemnation of this violence and acknowledgment of its racial content by leading public officials is now standard fare, but criminal convictions and departmental discipline are scarce. This review essay brings attention back to the institutionalized racism called out by the Kerner Commission, arguing that occasional and even chronic police violence is an outcome rather than the core problem. A more fundamental issue is a routine function of policing-protecting the mainstream United States from the perceived risk from its "ghetto" underbelly through spatial containment.