Help Us Stay Paywall-Free

Democracy depends on the free exchange of ideas. Help sustain it with a tax-deductible donation today.

Articles in Race tagged with Power over Policing

The United States has long supported the repression of Latin American land defenders. The tactics it exported are coming to the Atlanta forest.

Azadeh Shahshahani

Family policing is deeply unjust. The nuclear family is too.

Will Holub-Moorman

Its illegitimacy goes far beyond the war on drugs.

Stuart Schrader

The authors of Abolition. Feminism. Now. discuss why racialized state violence and gender-based violence have to be fought together.

nia t. evans, Beth E. Richie, Erica R. Meiners, Gina Dent, Angela Y. Davis

Derecka Purnell discusses her new book Becoming Abolitionists, how she came to join the movement against policing and prisons, and what a just world looks like.

Derecka Purnell, nia t. evans

Imagining a more just society.

Derecka Purnell

Studying the social world requires more than deference to data—no matter the prestige or sophistication of the tools with which they are parsed.

Lily Hu
Detroit police killed hundreds of unarmed Blacks in response to the civil rights movement. Their ability to get away with it reveals why most of today’s proposals to make police more accountable are bound to fail, and how we can do better.
Matthew D. Lassiter
A century of failed liberal attempts at policing reform in Minneapolis supports the view that none of the city council’s current proposals will prevent there from being another George Floyd.
Michael Brenes

A culture of protest takes hold in 1960s LA.

Robin D. G. Kelley
Custom WordPress Development by Kevinleary.net

Get a free copy of
Poems for Political Disaster!

For National Poetry Month, sign up for our newsletter and get a digital copy of our out-of-print chapbook Poems for Political Disaster—with work by Jorie Graham, Ilya Kaminsky, Solmaz Sharif, Juan Felipe Herrera, and much more.

Newsletter subscribers get our latest essays, reading lists, and exclusive editorial content (plus 10% off our entire store).

Get a free copy of
Poems for Political Disaster!

Poems-for-Political-Disaster-Twitter-1536x864

For National Poetry Month, sign up for our newsletter and get a digital copy of our out-of-print chapbook Poems for Political Disaster.