Thursday, November 12 at 2:30 PM on KPFK 90.7 FM, my guest on Bibliocracy is another “people’s historian,” celebrated UC Santa Cruz professor Dr. Marisol LeBrón. Out as the latest in the remarkable UC Press “American Studies Now” series, Policed: A Latinx History of State Violence argues the construction of policing based on race, citizenship, gender, class and geography, “the continuum of policing that operates in Latinx communities…the ways that policing is and has been implicitly and explicitly embedded into nearly facet of Latinx life in the United States.” This short, powerful “history of the present” does more to review, explain, and argue than a dozen similar books on the subject put together, but still with footnotes, a glossary, and both academic rigor and accessibility. For more see the website of Marisol LeBrón. And to learn about the series: American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present.
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