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Foreword

Abstract

These essays serve as a powerful reminder to those who uncritically consider racial policing as happenstance, accidental, or the product of a few rogue police officers. Together, they offer us a panoramic view of the intersections between law, race, social movements, and the science infiltrating our deep critiques of how “the way things are” is simply more of the way they have always been. In the end, their analyses compellingly link the multiple forms of state violence— domestic and imperialist—with sexual violence, focusing our attention on how race and policing is a process, learned and instituted. In the end, we all can agree that with attention, intention, and effort, racialized policing can be and needs to be reversed if American really truly wants to become great.