Sex, Race, and Police Power
The dramatic expansion of police power in the U.S. has been fueled by sexual policing\u2014the targeting and legal control of people\u2019s bodies and their presumed sexual activities. So argues Anne Gray Fischer, who describes the historical trajectory of sexual policing and traces the profoundly consequential shift in its targets from white women to Black women.\nAnne Gray Fischer, The Streets Belong to Us: Sex, Race, and Police Power from Segregation to Gentrification University of North Carolina Press, 2022\n(Image on main page by Steven Depolo.)\nThe post Sex, Race, and Police Power appeared first on KPFA.