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Disturbing the Peace

Black Culture and the Police Power after Slavery

Bryan Wagner

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ISBN 9780674035089

Publication Date: 10/30/2009

320 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

12 halftones

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Bryan Wagner is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Read a USA Today feature, informed by discussion with Bryan Wagner, on the case of Bras-Coupé, an enslaved man in New Orleans who was first shot by police and subsequently painted by them as a “super predator”

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