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Race, Crime, and Policing in the Jim Crow South - African Americans and Law Enforcement in Birmingham, Memphis, and New Orleans, 1920-1945 (Hardcover)
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Race, Crime, and Policing in the Jim Crow South - African Americans and Law Enforcement in Birmingham, Memphis, and New Orleans, 1920-1945 (Hardcover)
Series: Making the Modern South
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Throughout the Jim Crow era, southern police departments played a
vital role in the maintenance of white supremacy. Police targeted
African Americans through an array of actions, including violent
interactions, unjust arrests, and the enforcement of segregation
laws and customs. Scholars have devoted much attention to law
enforcement's use of aggression and brutality as a means of
maintaining African American subordination. While these
interpretations are vital to the broader understanding of police
and minority relations, Black citizens have often come off as
powerless in their encounters with law enforcement. Brandon T.
Jett's Race, Crime, and Policing in the Jim Crow South, by
contrast, reveals previously unrecognized efforts by African
Americans to use, manage, and exploit policing. In the process,
Jett exposes a much more complex relationship, suggesting that
while violence or the threat of violence shaped police and minority
relations, it did not define all interactions. Black residents of
southern cities repeatedly complained about violent policing
strategies and law enforcement's seeming lack of interest in crimes
committed against African Americans. These criticisms
notwithstanding, Blacks also voiced a desire for the police to
become more involved in their communities to reduce the seemingly
intractable problem of crime, much of which resulted from racial
discrimination and other structural factors related to Jim Crow.
Although the actions of the police were problematic, African
Americans nonetheless believed that law enforcement could play a
role in reducing crime in their communities. During the first half
of the twentieth century, Black citizens repeatedly demanded better
policing and engaged in behaviors designed to extract services from
law enforcement officers in Black neighborhoods as part of a
broader strategy to make their communities safer. By examining the
myriad ways in which African Americans influenced the police to
serve the interests of the Black community, Jett adds a new layer
to our understanding of race relations in the urban South in the
Jim Crow era and contributes to current debates around the
relationship between the police and minorities in the United
States.
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