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Examining racial profiling in American policing, Naomi Zack argues against white privilege discourse while introducing a new theory of applicative justice. Zack draws clear lines between rights and privileges and between justice and existing laws to make sense of the current crisis. This urgent and immediate analysis of the killings of unarmed black men by police officers shows how racial profiling matches statistics of the prison population with disregard for the constitutional rights of the many innocent people of all races. Moving the discussion from white privilege discourse to the rights of blacks, from ideas of white supremacy to legally protected police impunity, and from ideal and non-ideal justice theory to existing injustice, White Privilege and Black Rights examines the legal structure that has permitted the killings of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, and others. Deepening understanding without abandoning hope, Zack shows why it is more important to consider black rights than white privilege as we move forward through today's culture of inequality.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Politics & government Political control & freedoms

• Full title: White Privilege and Black Rights
• Subtitle: The Injustice of U.S. Police Racial Profiling and Homicide
• Author: Naomi Zack
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 154
• EAN: 9781442250574
• ISBN: 1442250577
• ID: 09239098
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Weight: 208 g
• Dimensions: 217 × 140 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 16. April 2015

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