A Class Blind Spot? Anti-racism in the United States

Abstract

The deaths of civilians at the hands of police have, in recent decades, led to popular uprisings in countries around the world. In France 2005, Greece 2008 and England 2011 such deaths triggered the largest riots those countries had witnessed in living memory. In each of these cases commentators, whether they sympathised with rioters or condemned them, generally understood that incidents of police violence were only symptoms of a ...