{"product_id":"after-black-lives-matter","title":"After Black Lives Matter","description":"\u003cb\u003eContemporary policing reflects the turn from welfare to domestic warfare as the chief means of regulating the excluded and oppressed\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe historic uprising in the wake of the murder of George Floyd transformed the way we think about race and policing. Why did it achieve so little in the way of substantive reforms? \u003ci\u003eAfter Black Lives Matter\u003c\/i\u003e argues that the failure to leave an institutional residue was not simply due to the mercurial and reactive character of the protests. Rather, the core of the movement itself failed to locate the central racial injustice that underpins the crisis of policing: socio-economic inequality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor Johnson, the anti-capitalist and downwardly redistributive politics expressed by different Black Lives Matter elements has too often been drowned out in the flood of black wealth creation, fetishism of Jim Crow black entrepreneurship, corporate diversity initiatives, and a quixotic reparations demand. None of these political tendencies addresses the fundamental problem underlying mass incarceration.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThat is the turn from welfare to domestic warfare as the chief means of regulating the excluded and oppressed. Johnson sees the way forward in building popular democratic power to advance public works and public goods.  Rather than abolishing police, \u003ci\u003eAfter Black Lives Matter\u003c\/i\u003e argues for abolishing the conditions of alienation and exploitation contemporary policing exists to manage.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51306409853216,"sku":"9781804291672","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0836\/3661\/7504\/files\/9781804291672.jpg?v=1772780024","url":"https:\/\/creativebysanchez.com\/products\/after-black-lives-matter","provider":"Creative By Sanchez","version":"1.0","type":"link"}