The Resource The torture letters : reckoning with police violence, Laurence Ralph
The torture letters : reckoning with police violence, Laurence Ralph
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The item The torture letters : reckoning with police violence, Laurence Ralph represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Biddle Law Library - University of Pennsylvania Law School.
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- Summary
- "Torture is an open secret in Chicago. Nobody in power wants to acknowledge this grim reality, but everyone knows it happens - and that the torturers are the police. Three to five new claims are submitted to the Torture Inquiry and Relief Commission of Illinois each week. Four hundred cases are currently pending investigation. Between 1972 and 1991, at least 125 black suspects were tortured by Chicago police officers working under former Police Commander John Burge. As the more recent revelations from the Homan Square "black site" show, that brutal period is far from a historical anomaly. For more than fifty years, police officers who took an oath to protect and serve have instead beaten, electrocuted, suffocated, and raped hundreds--perhaps thousands--of Chicago residents. Laurence Ralph chronicles the history of torture in Chicago, the burgeoning activist movement against police violence, and the American public's complicity in perpetuating torture at home and abroad. Engaging with a long tradition of epistolary meditations on racism in the United States, from James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time to Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me, Ralph offers in this book a collection of open letters written to protestors, victims, students, and others. Through these moving, questing, enraged letters, Ralph bears witness to police violence that began in Burge's Area Two and follows the city's networks of torture to the global War on Terror. From Vietnam to Geneva to Guantanamo Bay -Ralph's story extends as far as the legacy of American imperialism."
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xxiv, 242 pages
- Contents
-
- Prologue: a half century of torture
- Introduction
- The black box
- The B-team
- Charging genocide
- Bad guys
- Conclusion
- Epilogue: a model for justice
- Isbn
- 9780226490533
- Label
- The torture letters : reckoning with police violence
- Title
- The torture letters
- Title remainder
- reckoning with police violence
- Statement of responsibility
- Laurence Ralph
- Subject
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- Brutalités policières -- Illinois | Chicago
- Illinois -- Chicago
- Noirs américains -- Violence envers -- États-Unis
- Police brutality
- Police brutality -- Illinois | Chicago
- African Americans -- Violence against -- United States
- Torture -- United States
- Torture -- États-Unis
- Torture -- États-Unis
- United States
- Violence policière -- États-Unis | Illinois (États-Unis) | Chicago (Ill.)
- Torture
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Torture is an open secret in Chicago. Nobody in power wants to acknowledge this grim reality, but everyone knows it happens - and that the torturers are the police. Three to five new claims are submitted to the Torture Inquiry and Relief Commission of Illinois each week. Four hundred cases are currently pending investigation. Between 1972 and 1991, at least 125 black suspects were tortured by Chicago police officers working under former Police Commander John Burge. As the more recent revelations from the Homan Square "black site" show, that brutal period is far from a historical anomaly. For more than fifty years, police officers who took an oath to protect and serve have instead beaten, electrocuted, suffocated, and raped hundreds--perhaps thousands--of Chicago residents. Laurence Ralph chronicles the history of torture in Chicago, the burgeoning activist movement against police violence, and the American public's complicity in perpetuating torture at home and abroad. Engaging with a long tradition of epistolary meditations on racism in the United States, from James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time to Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me, Ralph offers in this book a collection of open letters written to protestors, victims, students, and others. Through these moving, questing, enraged letters, Ralph bears witness to police violence that began in Burge's Area Two and follows the city's networks of torture to the global War on Terror. From Vietnam to Geneva to Guantanamo Bay -Ralph's story extends as far as the legacy of American imperialism."
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- Cataloging source
- MUQ
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- Ralph, Laurence
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HV8148.C52
- LC item number
- R35 2020
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- African Americans
- Police brutality
- Torture
- Noirs américains
- Brutalités policières
- Torture
- Police brutality
- Torture
- Illinois
- United States
- Violence policière
- Torture
- Label
- The torture letters : reckoning with police violence, Laurence Ralph
- Bibliography note
- Comprend des références bibliographiques et un index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier/fre
- Content category
- texte
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent/fre
- Contents
- Prologue: a half century of torture -- Introduction -- The black box -- The B-team -- Charging genocide -- Bad guys -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: a model for justice
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- xxiv, 242 pages
- Isbn
- 9780226490533
- Lccn
- 2019005353
- Media category
- sans médiation
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia/fre
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1154686724
- Label
- The torture letters : reckoning with police violence, Laurence Ralph
- Bibliography note
- Comprend des références bibliographiques et un index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier/fre
- Content category
- texte
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent/fre
- Contents
- Prologue: a half century of torture -- Introduction -- The black box -- The B-team -- Charging genocide -- Bad guys -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: a model for justice
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- xxiv, 242 pages
- Isbn
- 9780226490533
- Lccn
- 2019005353
- Media category
- sans médiation
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia/fre
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1154686724
Subject
- Brutalités policières -- Illinois | Chicago
- Illinois -- Chicago
- Noirs américains -- Violence envers -- États-Unis
- Police brutality
- Police brutality -- Illinois | Chicago
- African Americans -- Violence against -- United States
- Torture -- United States
- Torture -- États-Unis
- Torture -- États-Unis
- United States
- Violence policière -- États-Unis | Illinois (États-Unis) | Chicago (Ill.)
- Torture
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