The Resource Murder in New Orleans : the creation of Jim Crow policing, Jeffrey S. Adler
Murder in New Orleans : the creation of Jim Crow policing, Jeffrey S. Adler
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- Summary
- New Orleans in the 1920s and 1930s was a deadly place. In 1925, the city's homicide rate was six times that of New York City and twelve times that of Boston. Jeffrey S. Adler has explored every homicide recorded in New Orleans between 1925 and 1940--over two thousand in all--scouring police and autopsy reports, old interviews, and crumbling newspapers. More than simply quantifying these cases, Adler places them in larger contexts--legal, political, cultural, and demographic--and emerges with a tale of racism, urban violence, and vicious policing that has startling relevance for today. Murder in New Orleans shows that whites were convicted of homicide at far higher rates than blacks leading up to the mid-1920s. But by the end of the following decade, this pattern had reversed completely, despite an overall drop in municipal crime rates. The injustice of this sharp rise in arrests was compounded by increasingly brutal treatment of black subjects by the New Orleans police department. Adler explores other counterintuitive trends in violence, particularly how murder soared during the flush times of the Roaring Twenties, how it plummeted during the Great Depression, and how the vicious response to African American crime occurred even as such violence plunged in frequency--revealing that the city's cycle of racial policing and punishment was connected less to actual patterns of wrongdoing than to the national enshrinement of Jim Crow. Rather than some hyperviolent outlier, this Louisiana city was a harbinger of the endemic racism at the center of today's criminal justice state. Murder in New Orleans lays bare how decades-old crimes, and the racially motivated cruelty of the official response, have baleful resonance in the age of Black Lives Matter. -- Provided by publisher
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- viii, 256 pages
- Contents
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- "It's only another negro fight and not important"
- "If you hit me again I will stick you with this knife"
- "She made me her dog"
- "Give me the gat"
- "The iron hand of justice"
- "Cheaper than a dime sandwich"
- Conclusion
- Isbn
- 9780226643458
- Label
- Murder in New Orleans : the creation of Jim Crow policing
- Title
- Murder in New Orleans
- Title remainder
- the creation of Jim Crow policing
- Statement of responsibility
- Jeffrey S. Adler
- Subject
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- Crime and race
- Crime and race -- Louisiana | New Orleans -- History -- 20th century
- History
- History
- Homicide
- Homicide
- Homicide -- Louisiana | New Orleans -- History -- 20th century
- Louisiana -- New Orleans
- Louisiana -- New Orleans
- New Orleans (La.) -- Race relations | History -- 20th century
- Race relations
- Race relations
- 1900-1999
- Crime and race
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- New Orleans in the 1920s and 1930s was a deadly place. In 1925, the city's homicide rate was six times that of New York City and twelve times that of Boston. Jeffrey S. Adler has explored every homicide recorded in New Orleans between 1925 and 1940--over two thousand in all--scouring police and autopsy reports, old interviews, and crumbling newspapers. More than simply quantifying these cases, Adler places them in larger contexts--legal, political, cultural, and demographic--and emerges with a tale of racism, urban violence, and vicious policing that has startling relevance for today. Murder in New Orleans shows that whites were convicted of homicide at far higher rates than blacks leading up to the mid-1920s. But by the end of the following decade, this pattern had reversed completely, despite an overall drop in municipal crime rates. The injustice of this sharp rise in arrests was compounded by increasingly brutal treatment of black subjects by the New Orleans police department. Adler explores other counterintuitive trends in violence, particularly how murder soared during the flush times of the Roaring Twenties, how it plummeted during the Great Depression, and how the vicious response to African American crime occurred even as such violence plunged in frequency--revealing that the city's cycle of racial policing and punishment was connected less to actual patterns of wrongdoing than to the national enshrinement of Jim Crow. Rather than some hyperviolent outlier, this Louisiana city was a harbinger of the endemic racism at the center of today's criminal justice state. Murder in New Orleans lays bare how decades-old crimes, and the racially motivated cruelty of the official response, have baleful resonance in the age of Black Lives Matter. -- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- ICU/DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Adler, Jeffrey S
- Dewey number
- 364.152/3097633509041
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HV6197.U62
- LC item number
- L83 2019
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Historical studies of urban America
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Crime and race
- Homicide
- New Orleans (La.)
- Crime and race
- Homicide
- Race relations
- Louisiana
- Label
- Murder in New Orleans : the creation of Jim Crow policing, Jeffrey S. Adler
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
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- text
- still image
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- Contents
- "It's only another negro fight and not important" -- "If you hit me again I will stick you with this knife" -- "She made me her dog" -- "Give me the gat" -- "The iron hand of justice" -- "Cheaper than a dime sandwich" -- Conclusion
- Control code
- 1079400857
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- viii, 256 pages
- Isbn
- 9780226643458
- Lccn
- 2018055528
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other control number
- 40029305672
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1079400857
- Label
- Murder in New Orleans : the creation of Jim Crow policing, Jeffrey S. Adler
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Content type code
-
- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Contents
- "It's only another negro fight and not important" -- "If you hit me again I will stick you with this knife" -- "She made me her dog" -- "Give me the gat" -- "The iron hand of justice" -- "Cheaper than a dime sandwich" -- Conclusion
- Control code
- 1079400857
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- viii, 256 pages
- Isbn
- 9780226643458
- Lccn
- 2018055528
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other control number
- 40029305672
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1079400857
Subject
- Crime and race
- Crime and race -- Louisiana | New Orleans -- History -- 20th century
- History
- History
- Homicide
- Homicide
- Homicide -- Louisiana | New Orleans -- History -- 20th century
- Louisiana -- New Orleans
- Louisiana -- New Orleans
- New Orleans (La.) -- Race relations | History -- 20th century
- Race relations
- Race relations
- 1900-1999
- Crime and race
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