Book contents
- Neighborhood Watch
- Neighborhood Watch
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Language
- Introduction A Personal Protection Agency
- 1 Cycles of Racial Fear
- 2 White Caller Crime
- 3 Just a Hunch
- 4 Defending White Space
- 5 Unqualified Immunity
- 6 Permanent Fear
- 7 Rethinking Maximum Policing
- 8 Resisting a “Shoot First, Think Later” Culture
- Epilogue “Send Her Back”
- Index
6 - Permanent Fear
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 May 2022
- Neighborhood Watch
- Neighborhood Watch
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Language
- Introduction A Personal Protection Agency
- 1 Cycles of Racial Fear
- 2 White Caller Crime
- 3 Just a Hunch
- 4 Defending White Space
- 5 Unqualified Immunity
- 6 Permanent Fear
- 7 Rethinking Maximum Policing
- 8 Resisting a “Shoot First, Think Later” Culture
- Epilogue “Send Her Back”
- Index
Summary
Four centuries of carefully cultivated racial fear have had a profound effect on the White psyche. The attitudes this long campaign has bred are enduring and pernicious, and they cannot be expected to change quickly. Racist tropes are so deeply ingrained in America’s collective unconscious that no amount of bias awareness will rid White people of the epidemic of racial fear
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- Neighborhood WatchPolicing White Spaces in America, pp. 125 - 133Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022