title: Policing Black Bodies: How Black Lives Are Surveilled and How to Work for Change
author: Angela J. Hattery Professor  George Mason University; author  Intimate Partner Violence
description: <span><span>Intended to provoke controversial and uncomfortable discussion, Hattery and Smith's book focuses on what they expose as America's deeply rooted culture, history and ideology of deliberately violating black bodies in the name of policing. In ten chapters, they concentrate not simply on exonerated police killings of unarmed black men but also on mass incarceration in what they report as a new plantation economy with a pipeline running from schoolrooms to prison cells in a prison-industrial complex. Their concerns reach the indignities and insults blacks suffer daily not only at the hands of law enforcement and the criminal justice system but in every aspect of life amid the fiction of colorblind racism. Well documented, passionately argued, and engagingly written, this powerful analysis of systematic racism describes how society supports white, male, patriarchal, heterosexual privilege while oppressing marginalized peoples. </span><span style="font-weight:bold;">Verdict:</span><span> An essential work that advances an acute awareness of our responsibility to make society equitable for all.</span></span> (<i>Library Journal, Starred Review</i>)<br /><br /><span><span>Finally we have a theoretically sophisticated, comprehensive book that examines the myriad ways in which Black bodies are surveilled in America. </span><span style="font-style:italic;">Policing Black Bodies</span><span> considers mass incarceration, prison industries, the school to prison pipeline, the policing of both womens and trans bodies, and the police killings of Blacks as part of continuum structured by systemic racism. Hattery and Smith cap this marvelous book with a provocative chapter discussing policy options. This is a book I will definitely assign to my students.</span></span> (Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Duke University; author of Racism Without Racists)<br /><br /><span><span style="font-style:italic;">Policing Black Bodies</span><span> presents a critical, deep dive into one of the most salient issues of our times. Hattery and Smith tie together theory, practice, and outcomes to both humanize the problems and inspire all readers to face these issues head on while finding ways to work to improveand hopefully one day rectify</span><span>the web of consequences tied to social control, race/ethnicity, and public policy within the criminal justice system. It is a must read for every citizen, scholar, and student in the United States.</span></span> (Danielle S. Rudes, Center for Advancing Correctional Excellence, George Mason University)<br /><br /><span><span>A provocative explication of an outrageous situation. Hattery and Smith dissect the system of racism that runs like a red thread through centuries of harsh US punishment practices. In tough, engaging prose, they guide readers through the hidden histories and contemporary impact of urban riots, school inequality, private prisons, police killings, and exoneration procedures, with each link in the chain building a stronger case for their contention that these institutions largely serve and function to police Black bodies.</span></span> (Chris Uggen, Regents Professor and Martindale Chair in Sociology and Law, University of Minnesota)
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