You can't stop the revolution : community disorder and social ties in post-Ferguson America

Author(s)

• Boyles, Andrea S.

Bibliographic Information

You can't stop the revolution : community disorder and social ties in post-Ferguson America

Andrea S. Boyles

（George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies）

University of California Press, c2019

• : pbk

Note

Summary: "As police brutality and crime in mostly disadvantaged black communities have garnered significant attention, few studies have managed to capture the convergence of the two as a singular and yet dichotomous mobilization effort in a post-Ferguson milieu. In You Can't Stop the Revolution, sociologist Andrea S. Boyles provides a full ethnographic depiction of blacks fighting the victim blame and backlash of neighborhood violence while attending to highly charged, competing calls for action--tackling black citizen-police conflict and addressing disorder and crime in their often disproportionately poor communities. Drawing on momentum from civil unrest in Ferguson, Boyles offers an everyday montage of protests, social ties, and empowerment as coalescing to safeguard black lives while simultaneously igniting unprecedented twenty-first-century resistance"--Provided by publisher

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

You Can't Stop the Revolution is a vivid participant ethnography conducted from inside of Ferguson protests as the Black Lives Matter movement catapulted onto the global stage. Sociologist Andrea S. Boyles offers an everyday montage of protests, social ties, and empowerment that coalesced to safeguard black lives while igniting unprecedented twenty-first-century resistance. Focusing on neighborhood crime prevention and contentious black citizen-police interactions in the context of preserving black lives, this book examines how black citizens work to combat disorder, crime, and police conflict. Boyles offers an insider's analysis of cities like Ferguson, where a climate of indifference leaves black neighborhoods vulnerable to conflict, where black lives are seemingly expendable, and where black citizens are held responsible for their own oppression. You Can't Stop the Revolution serves as a reminder that community empowerment is still possible in neighborhoods experiencing police brutality and interpersonal violence.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments introduction 1. Between a rock and a hard place: the (re)construction of blackness and identity politics 2. (Dis)order and informal social ties in the united states 3. "A change gotta come": informal integration 4. Making black lives matter 5. "We are in a state of emergency" 6. (No) conclusion and discussion Notes References Index

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Details

• NCID: BB31535182
• ISBN:
  • 9780520298330
• LCCN: 2019002897
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oakland, Calif.
• Pages/Volumes: xv, 216 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 363.2/3
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Police-community relations -- United States -- 21st century
  • LCSH : Police brutality -- United States -- 21st century
  • LCSH : African Americans -- Violence against -- United States -- 21st century
  • LCSH : Protest movements -- United States -- 21st century
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA46313132