{"product_id":"the-rage-of-innocence-how-america-criminalizes-black-youth-9781524748906","title":"The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eA brilliant analysis of the foundations of racist policing in America: the day-to-day brutalities, largely hidden from public view, endured by Black youth growing up under constant surveillance and the persistent threat of physical and psychological abuse by police\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing upon twenty-five years of experience representing Black youth in Washington, D.C.'s juvenile courts, Kristin Henning confronts America's irrational, manufactured fears of these young people and makes a powerfully compelling case that the crisis in racist American policing begins with its relationship to Black children.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eHenning explains how discriminatory and aggressive policing has socialized a generation of Black teenagers to fear, resent, and resist the police, and she details the long-term consequences of racism and trauma that they experience at the hands of police and their vigilante surrogates. She makes clear that unlike White youth, who are afforded the freedom to test boundaries, experiment with sex and drugs, and figure out who they are and who they want to be, Black youth are seen as a threat to White America and are denied healthy adolescent development. She examines the criminalization of Black adolescent play and sexuality, and of Black fashion, hair, and music. She limns the effects of police presence in schools and the depth of police-induced trauma in Black adolescents.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eEspecially in the wake of the recent unprecedented, worldwide outrage at racial injustice and inequality, \u003ci\u003eThe Rage of Innocence \u003c\/i\u003eis an essential book for our moment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Henning, Kristin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/28\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Pantheon Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781524748906\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 512","brand":"Kristin Henning","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39429193826379,"sku":"9781524748906","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0021\/1697\/6715\/products\/img_67a550be-4a21-479d-b625-8bbf11a71287.jpg?v=1625775930","url":"https:\/\/blackbookstore.com\/products\/the-rage-of-innocence-how-america-criminalizes-black-youth-9781524748906","provider":"Black Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}