How to lose the hounds : maroon geographies and a world beyond policing / Celeste Winston.

"In How to Lose the Hounds Celeste Winston explores marronage-the practice of flight from and placemaking beyond slavery-as a guide to police abolition. She examines historically Black maroon communities in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC, that have been subjected to violent excesses of polic...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Errantries.
Main Author: Winston, Celeste, 1992- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.
Series:Errantries.
Subjects:
African Americans > Segregation > Maryland > History.
Community organization > Maryland > History.
Police-community relations > Maryland > History.
Discrimination in law enforcement > Maryland > History.
African Americans > Social conditions.
Racism > Maryland.
African Americans > Violence against.
Police brutality > Maryland.
Police abolition movement.
African Americans > Civil rights > Maryland > History.
Police misconduct > Maryland.
Maryland > Race relations > History.
Noirs américains > Ségrégation > Maryland > Histoire.
Organisation communautaire > Maryland > Histoire.
Relations police-collectivité > Maryland > Histoire.
Discrimination dans l'application des lois > Maryland > Histoire.
Noirs américains > Conditions sociales.
Racisme > Maryland.
Brutalités policières > Maryland.
Mouvement pour l'abolition de la police.
Noirs américains > Droits > Maryland > Histoire.
Abus de la police > Maryland.
Maryland > Relations raciales > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography.
African Americans > Civil rights.
African Americans > Segregation.
Community organization.
Discrimination in law enforcement.
Police brutality.
Police-community relations.
Police misconduct.
Race relations.
Racism.
Maryland.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xix, 167 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Maroon Folklore as an Abolition Technology
  • The Fugitive Infrastructure of Maroon Geographies
  • Maroon Justice
  • Community beyond Policing
  • Maroon Geographies and the Paradox of Abolition Policy
  • Abolition Future Folklore.