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Policing Life and Death: Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico

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Policing Life and Death: Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico - Lebron, Marisol
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In her exciting new book, Marisol LeBr�n traces the rise of punitive governance in Puerto Rico over the course of the twentieth century and up to the present. Punitive governance emerged as a way for the Puerto Rican state to manage the deep and ongoing crises stemming from the archipelago's incorporation into the United States as a colonial territory. A structuring component of everyday life for many Puerto Ricans, police power has reinforced social inequality and worsened conditions of vulnerability in marginalized ...

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Policing Life and Death: Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico 2019, University of California Press

ISBN-13: 9780520300170

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Policing Life and Death: Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico 2019, University of California Press

ISBN-13: 9780520300163

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