Qualified Immunity: State Power, Vigilantism and the History of Racial Violence

IF 0.4 3区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Pub Date : 2021-10-01 DOI:10.1017/S1537781421000426
A. Jacobs
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Since the historic uprisings sparked by the murder of George Floyd, growing calls to defund the police have upended mainstream political discourse in the United States. Outrage at appalling evidence of rampant police brutality and an entrenched culture of impunity have moved to the very center of public debate what were until recently dismissed as radical demands. This dramatic shift has, among other things, opened up space for discussion of the history of policing and the prison-industrial complex more broadly. In particular, abolitionists have urged examination of the deep roots of our contemporary situation. As the organizer and educator Mariame Kaba argued in an editorial published in The New York Times, “There is not a single era in United States history in which the police were not a force of violence against black people.”1 That a statement like this would appear in the paper of record reflects a paradigm shift in popular understandings of the history of the criminal legal system.
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限定豁免:国家权力、警戒主义与种族暴力史
自从乔治·弗洛伊德谋杀案引发历史性起义以来,越来越多的要求警方撤资的呼声颠覆了美国的主流政治话语。对猖獗的警察暴行和根深蒂固的有罪不罚文化的骇人听闻的证据的愤怒已经成为公众辩论的中心,直到最近,这些都被认为是激进的要求。这一戏剧性的转变为更广泛地讨论警务历史和监狱工业综合体开辟了空间。废奴主义者尤其敦促审视我们当代处境的深层根源。正如组织者和教育家Mariame Kaba在《纽约时报》发表的一篇社论中所说,“美国历史上没有一个时代的警察不是针对黑人的暴力力量。”。
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