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Policing Los Angeles : race, resistance, and the rise of the LAPD /

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Max Felker-Kantor narrates the dynamic history of policing, antipolice abuse movements, race and politics in Los Angeles from the 1965 Watts uprising to the 1992 Los Angeles rebellion. Using the explosion of two large-scale uprisings in Los Angeles as bookends, Felker-Kantor highlights the racism at...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Felker-Kantor, Max (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
Series:Justice, power, and politics.
Subjects:
Los Angeles (Calif.). > Police Department > History > 20th century.
Police > California > Los Angeles > History > 20th century.
Police administration > California > Los Angeles > History > 20th century.
Discrimination in law enforcement > California > Los Angeles > History > 20th century.
Los Angeles (Calif.) > Politics and government > 20th century.
Los Angeles (Calif.) > Race relations > History > 20th century.
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Summary:Max Felker-Kantor narrates the dynamic history of policing, antipolice abuse movements, race and politics in Los Angeles from the 1965 Watts uprising to the 1992 Los Angeles rebellion. Using the explosion of two large-scale uprisings in Los Angeles as bookends, Felker-Kantor highlights the racism at the heart of the city's expansive police power through a range of previously unused and rare archival sources. His book is a timely account of the transformation in police power, the convergence of interests in support of law and order policies and African American and Mexican American resistance to police violence after the Watts uprising.
Physical Description:382 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781469646831
1469646838