Papa

Race & Class ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 030639682110109
Author(s):  
Brenda Burgo
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Black Men ◽  
Black People ◽  
Personal Narrative ◽  
Police Department ◽  
Police Brutality ◽  
Severe Injuries ◽  
Systemic Racism ◽  
History Of ◽  
Permanent Brain Damage

In this personal narrative, the author details her grandfather’s and father’s experiences of police brutality in Los Angeles, a pattern that continues from one generation to another. She shows the long legacy of violence and racism that Black men face at the hands of the Los Angeles Police Department – from her grandfather Roy Wyche, who was beaten so badly in 1974 that he sustained permanent brain damage, to her father who suffered severe injuries after being wrongly suspected of a crime in 1983. These stories, she argues, are common occurrences that are part of a long history of injustice and systemic racism that Black people continue to face in the present day.

scholarly journals Black women's narratives of resilience through vicarious incarceration and reintegration

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Teah Monique Hairston
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Black Men ◽  
Black People ◽  
Large Percentage ◽  
Black Communities ◽  
Systemic Racism ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Women's Narratives ◽  
Culturally Informed

Systemic racism has resulted in the disproportionate imprisonment of Black people. With Black men constituting a large percentage of incarcerated bodies, many Black women (44 [percent])--mothers, wives, sisters, etc.--will experience vicarious incarceration. This research examines the ways this population, as caretakers and supporters of their incarcerated loved, ones manage resilience in their daily lives as they navigate a racist, sexist society. Ten women were interviewed about their experiences with vicarious incarceration and reentry. I conclude that the women manage resiliency largely through the support of other Black women and community-family, who--in many instances--are also experiencing vicarious incarceration and/or other racial stress and trauma. Findings provide implications for the need for effective resources, more specifically, culturally-informed, culturally-relevant resources--to assist Black communities with healing from the effects of incarceration, and to prevent and intervene in the intergenerational cycles of criminal justice entanglement.

Black Men in Higher Education Discuss the Impact of Police Brutality, Protest, and the Coronavirus Pandemic on Black Boys and Men

2021 ◽  
pp. 54-72
Author(s):  
Sean T. Coleman ◽  
Julius L. Davis ◽  
Clyde Doughty, Jr.
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Black Men ◽  
Black Community ◽  
White Male ◽  
Police Brutality ◽  
Male Population ◽  
History Of ◽  
Critical Components ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
The Impact

Police brutality has a long history of causing havoc in the Black community. The impact of police brutality on Black men has been intensified during the coronavirus pandemic when the world witnessed George Floyd's murder on video by a white male police officer. This state of affairs caused international outrage and protest that has highlighted how Black men have been disproportionately impacted by police brutality and placed at risk for contracting COVID-19. As university professors and administrators, the authors are constantly concerned about how police brutality impacts Black men under their tutelage on a college campus. The authors argue what must be addressed is the never-ending racial pandemic continues to plague the Black community, especially men. Higher education environments are critical components of the Black community, especially in producing an educated Black male population. This chapter offers solutions to support Black males against the racial pandemic.

Policing by Numbers

2020 ◽  
pp. 17-36
Author(s):  
Sarah Brayne
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Data Use ◽  
Big Data Analytics ◽  
Police Department ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Predictive Algorithms ◽  
History Of ◽  
Evidence Based Policing

This chapter traces the history of quantification in policing, from pin maps to predictive algorithms. It examines the surveillance landscape, starting with the “scientific turn” in policing in the early 20th century, then moving to the rise of evidence-based policing, the Information Sharing Environment (ISE) that emerged after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, and then predictive algorithms and big data analytics put to work in modern policing. Historically, the police collected most of the information they use in the course of their daily operations themselves. However, the chapter highlights the growing role of the private sector—for data collection and the provision of analytic platforms—in policing. Both the past and present of policing are highly racialized, so it also describes how data is positioned as an antidote to racism and bias in policing. The chapter concludes with an overview of data use and technologies at work in the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD).

From protests to practice: Confronting systemic racism in LIS

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Renate L. Chancellor ◽  
Paige DeLoach ◽  
Anthony Dunbar ◽  
Shari Lee ◽  
Rajesh Singh
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
The United States ◽  
Police Brutality ◽  
Systemic Racism ◽  
National Response ◽  
Real Change ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S

The death of George Floyd, at the hands of the Minnesota police on May 25, 2020, sparked a global uproar that many have argued has not occurred since the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. It is unclear why this particular incident elicited such a visceral and widespread response, especially in light of the fact that police brutality towards Blacks in America is not a new phenomenon. This paper examines the national response to Floyd’s death within the contexts of CRT, the history of systemic racism in the United States, and questions how race and inequity issues have been addressed in LIS. The authors provide actionable measures that could go a long way in moving the discipline toward a shift in thinking. However, they find that these efforts need to be sustained, because one-shot events, training sessions, or activities rarely result in any real change. Real progress, they conclude, will require more than new laws. It will also require a seismic societal shift in attitude.

scholarly journals Woman in the Mirror: Reflections

2015 ◽  
pp. 92
Author(s):  
Laura Fish
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Black Men ◽  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Black People ◽  
White People ◽  
Black British ◽  
Mary Prince ◽  
Political Views ◽  
History Of ◽  
Joan Riley

In A Room of One’s Own (1929) Virginia Woolf asserts: “Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size”. (34) The use of the mirror is key to Woolf’s arguments about the position of women in general and in particular that of women writers. Complicating Woolf’s view less than a century later, I examine how black women function as looking-glasses in a dual way: as blacks, we shared the past (and now share the current) fate of black people reflecting the “darker” side of white people, as many whites projected onto blacks the unacknowledgeable traits of their own nature. The mirror is also key then to the way in which racial oppression has been analysed in literature. My paper offers an account, by way of selected examples from the history of our literature, of indicating how the mirror has been essential to how black British women are viewed and reflected back. I suggest that the misshapen image in the looking glass created by white people and also black men, allows them to see an inflated reflection of themselves, to assume false feelings of superiority, and to perpetuate oppression against us. I focus on Mary Prince, Mary Seacole, Una Marson, Joan Riley and Helen Oeyemi–authors whose work either anticipates or relates to Woolf’s notion of mirroring, by seeking ways to addressor overcome the situation in which we are placed. The texts explored not only trace the development of the tradition of our writing - the shift from being represented to representing ourselves– but also present a range of cultural and political views and identify three recurring themes: firstly, the denigration in our portrayal; secondly, the assumed superiority white people and black men adopt over us; and thirdly our resistance in remonstrating against such treatment and exposure.

scholarly journals Systemic Racism, Police Brutality of Black People, and the Use of Violence in Quelling Peaceful Protests in America

2020 ◽  
pp. 224-262
Author(s):  
Williams C. Iheme
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Black People ◽  
Jim Crow ◽  
Police Brutality ◽  
Corporate America ◽  
Systemic Racism ◽  
Sustainable Solutions ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
The Face ◽  
Initial Inability

The Trump Administration and its mantra to ‘Make America Great Again’ has been calibrated with racism and severe oppression against Black people in America who still bear the deep marks of slavery. After the official abolition of slavery in the second half of the nineteenth century, the initial inability of Black people to own land, coupled with the various Jim Crow laws rendered the acquired freedom nearly insignificant in the face of poverty and hopelessness. Although the age-long struggles for civil rights and equal treatments have caused the acquisition of more black-letter rights, the systemic racism that still perverts the American justice system has largely disabled these rights: the result is that Black people continue to exist at the periphery of American economy and politics. Using a functional approach and other types of approach to legal and sociological reasoning, this article examines the supportive roles of Corporate America, Mainstream Media, and White Supremacists in winnowing the systemic oppression that manifests largely through police brutality. The article argues that some of the sustainable solutions against these injustices must be tackled from the roots and not through window-dressing legislation, which often harbor the narrow interests of Corporate America.

Policing Los Angeles

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Max Felker-Kantor
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Residential Segregation ◽  
Mexican American ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Police Department ◽  
Law And Order ◽  
Police Power ◽  
Police Violence ◽  
History Of ◽  
Police Abuse

When the Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts erupted in violent protest in August 1965, the uprising drew strength from decades of pent-up frustration with employment discrimination, residential segregation, and poverty. But the more immediate grievance was anger at the racist and abusive practices of the Los Angeles Police Department. Yet in the decades after Watts, the LAPD resisted all but the most limited demands for reform made by activists and residents of color, instead intensifying its power. In Policing Los Angeles, Max Felker-Kantor narrates the dynamic history of policing, anti-police abuse movements, race, and politics in Los Angeles from the 1965 Watts uprising to the 1992 Los Angeles rebellion. Using the explosions 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 gripping and 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.

scholarly journals For Black men, being tall increases threat stereotyping and police stops

2018 ◽  
Vol 115 (11) ◽  
pp. 2711-2715 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil Hester ◽  
Kurt Gray
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Black Men ◽  
Black People ◽  
Police Department ◽  
White Men ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Causal Link ◽  
White People ◽  
To Receive ◽  
New York Police Department

Height seems beneficial for men in terms of salaries and success; however, past research on height examines only White men. For Black men, height may be more costly than beneficial, primarily signaling threat rather than competence. Three studies reveal the downsides of height in Black men. Study 1 analyzes over 1 million New York Police Department stop-and-frisk encounters and finds that tall Black men are especially likely to receive unjustified attention from police. Then, studies 2 and 3 experimentally demonstrate a causal link between perceptions of height and perceptions of threat for Black men, particularly for perceivers who endorse stereotypes that Black people are more threatening than White people. Together, these data reveal that height is sometimes a liability for Black men, particularly in contexts in which threat is salient.

scholarly journals East Side Story: Disaggregating Gang Homicides in East Los Angeles

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 48
Author(s):  
Matthew Valasik ◽  
Shannon E. Reid
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Latent Class Analysis ◽  
Community Policing ◽  
Latent Class ◽  
Police Department ◽  
Street Gangs ◽  
Class Analysis ◽  
East Side ◽  
East Los Angeles ◽  
History Of

This research extends the homicide literature by using latent class analysis methods to examine the neighborhood structural and demographic characteristics of different categories of homicides in the Hollenbeck Community Policing Area of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). The Hollenbeck area itself is a 15 square-mile region with approximately 187,000 residents, the majority of whom are Latino (84 percent). Hollenbeck also has a protracted history of intergenerational Latinx gangs with local neighborhood residents viewing them as a fundamental social problem. Hollenbeck has over 30 active street gangs, each claiming a geographically defined territory, many of which have remained stable during the study period. Over twenty years (1990–2012) of homicide data collected from Hollenbeck’s Homicide Division are utilized to create an empirically rigorous typology of homicide incidents and to test whether or not gang homicides are sufficiently distinct in nature to be a unique category in the latent class analysis.

The Influence of Hegemonic (Toxic) Masculinity on Leadership Behaviors of Black Men

2021 ◽  
pp. 385-395
Author(s):  
Irvin Moore
Keyword(s):  
Black Men ◽  
Black Male ◽  
Black People ◽  
Leadership Behaviors ◽  
Professional Associations ◽  
Leadership Studies ◽  
Fortune 500 Companies ◽  
Community Influences ◽  
History Of ◽  
Men's Psychology

Black male leaders represent a small percentage of Fortune 500 companies. Images of Black men have mostly portrayed aggression, hypermasculinity, and patriarchal thoughts about gender dominance. Hegemonic (toxic) masculinity is a symptom of cultural impressions that teach men what masculine ideologies to embrace and how to become a “real man.” Nuances across race are evident as Black males learn messages of masculinity through the history of Black people and community influences that abhor vulnerability. With so few Black leaders across organizations, they could become susceptible to enacting hegemonic behaviors in their leadership and mentorship roles. Further research could buttress leadership studies, Black studies, and men's psychology by examining the lived experiences of Black male leaders acting as mentors within professional associations. These investigations might illustrate the profound contributions of early conceptualizations of masculinity to leadership behavior and the proliferation of masculine thoughts taught in mentorship programs to young Black people.

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