Race and Police
Brucato, Ben![Race and Police](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/444/44436939/CHSBZCOP0344436939.jpg)
In the United States, race and police were founded along with a capitalist economy dependent on the enslavement of workers of African descent. Race and Police builds a critical theory of American policing by analyzing a heterodox history of policing, drawn from the historiography of slavery and slave patrols. Beginning by tracing the historical origins of the police mandate in British colonial America, the book shows that the peculiar institut...