Cathy Lisa Schneider looks at the relationship between racialized police violence and urban upheaval in impoverished neighborhoods of New York and greater Paris, and considers some of the changes that have made American cities less riot-prone today.
Cathy Lisa Schneider is Associate Professor in the School of International Service at American University and author of Shantytown Protest in Pinochet's Chile.
"[A] devastating study of police officers failing to enforce law in
a manner that expresses appropriate respect for the communities
that they purport to serves . . . the arguments raise much broader
issues about the function of the police within the institutional
fabric of the modern state."—Perspectives on Politics
"Readers will be rewarded with subtle remarks, a vast knowledge of
historical trends helping to better grasp the current situations,
and a stimulating ethnographic work."—Ethnic and Racial Studies
"Incredibly thorough and provocative. . . . Schneider skillfully
brings individual perspectives to this complicated social
phenomenon. In so doing, she demonstrates that violent revolt holds
value for all those involved."—Humanity & Society
"[Police Power and Race Riots] generates a depth of ethnographic
material that provides the reader with a rare insight as to the
plight of specific ethnic minority groups and their relationship
with the police."—Policing and Society: An International Journal of
Research and Policy
"In past decades, most urban unrest in Western countries has been
provoked by deadly confrontations between law enforcement officers
and inhabitants of disadvantaged neighborhoods belonging to
minorities. Offering a transatlantic comparison and a temporal
depth to events which for the most part have been studied in
national contexts from an ahistorical perspective, Police Power and
Race Riots proposes a novel and crucial addition to the literature
on the subject, allowing for a greater understanding of the often
overlooked colonial and racial dimension of iterative disturbances
in France as well as the little analyzed political and social
aspects of the relative calm in New York—a remarkable
achievement."—Didier Fassin, author of Enforcing Order: An
Ethnography of Urban Policing
"Cathy Lisa Schneider's comparative analysis of policing in New
York and Paris examines the relationships between the state and
urban minorities, and asks under what conditions do fractious
relationships turn into riots. Schneider compares police tactics in
enforcing racial boundaries, and argues that access to the judicial
system and municipal authorities are the key variables in dampening
social unrest. The book is an exciting addition to the literature
on policing and urban violence, and will find an appreciative
audience with those interested in urban studies, sociology, and
public policy."—Eric Schneider, University of Pennsylvania
"A superb work of comparative and historical scholarship that makes
a major contribution to our understanding of policing, violence,
and urban riots, in the United States as well as
France."—Jacqueline E. Ross, University of Illinois College of Law
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