You Can’t Stop the Revolution is a vivid participant ethnography inside of Ferguson protests, as the Black Lives Matter movement exploded onto the global stage. Sociologist Andrea 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. Focusing on neighborhood crime prevention and contentious black citizen–police interactions, all 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 the socialization of indifference leaves black neighborhoods vulnerable to citizen and state conflict, all in a climate where black lives are not only seemingly expendable but also held responsible for their own oppression. You Can’t Stop the Revolution serves as a reminder that community empowerment is still possible in neighborhoods infected with police brutality and interpersonal violence.
You Can't Stop the Revolution Community Disorder and Social Ties in Post-Ferguson America
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"Andrea Boyles's three-year study captures poignant displays of commonly discounted resilience and determination that historically oppressed people equip themselves with to endure."—Rod K. Brunson, Thomas P. O’Neill Jr. Chair of Public Life, Northeastern University, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice"Gives us a deeper understanding of what happened in Ferguson and why it continues. This book is brilliantly written and inspires us all to work for change."—Amy A. Hunter, St. Louis native and social justice speaker, activist, and creator of TED Talk "Lucky Zip Codes"
"A critical masterpiece that refocuses our attention around police violence onto Black bodies across geographical Black spaces not typically considered in the literature. Powerfully captures Ferguson in ways that problematize earlier assumptions about racialized policing and violence—and demonstrates how Blacks resist state and community violence. A major contribution!"—Jason M. Williams, coeditor of Black Males and the Criminal Justice System
"Very little scholarship in our field constitutes this type of solid, detailed, and well-integrated methodological work, marrying the micro and macro levels of data and analysis. A pathbreaking study of the black community engaging in community and political activity that the author frames as 'protecting and serving.'"—Peter Kraska, author of Militarizing the American Criminal Justice System: The Changing Roles of the Armed Forces and the Police
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