RT Article
T1 On the Epidemic of Police Killings
JF Social justice
VO 39
IS 4
SP 52
OP 75
A1 Martinot, Steve 1939-
LA English
YR 2012
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/174715573X
AB This essay seeks to clarify conceptually the common structure uniting many of the incidents in the recent crescendo of police killings of people of color, going beyond their shared racist framework. In tandem with the "new Jim Crow" that Michelle Alexander describes, these killings pertain to the role of the police as the selection mechanism enforcing a new color line. The author focuses on the killings of Oscar Grant, Alan Blueford, Trayvon Martin, and Troy Davis. When connected by their common threads, these killings reveal aspects of the cultural structure of racialization in the United States. The essay concludes by looking at the politico-legal goal of this epidemic of killings.
K1 Davis, Troy, 1968-2011
K1 Martin, Trayvon, 1995-2012
K1 Blueford, Alan
K1 Grant, Oscar
K1 Racialization
K1 people of color
K1 Police shootings