Monica M. Gerber and Jonathan Jackson (LSE): Justifying Violence: Legitimacy, Ideology and Public Support for Police Use of Force. Ana Swanson on the forgotten way African Americans stayed safe in a racist America. A modern-day lynching: Craig Anderson was headed home to celebrate his birthday with his partner — instead, he became the victim of a brutal and violent form of racism that many in Mississippi had thought long gone. The disproportionate risks of Driving While Black: An examination of traffic stops and arrests in Greensboro, N.C., uncovered wide racial differences in measure after measure of police conduct. Wiley Hall reviews The Beast Side: Living and Dying While Black in America by D. Watkins. Nightmare on Main Street: Zandria F. Robinson on racial violence and the problem of convention.
The real “Ferguson effect”: Brittney Cooper on black death, white “safety” and the growing hopelessness among young people of color. Chris Lebron on the inheritance of disaffection: For America’s black and brown citizens, holding on to the hope of a bright future requires an act of imagination. Megan Ming Francis on how to make government care about black lives. Eddie Bruce-Jones on black lives and the state of distraction.
