Bluecoated Terror

Jim Crow New Orleans and the Roots of Modern Police Brutality

Jeffrey S. Adler

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University of California Press
09 April 2024

History of the Americas; Violence in society; Police & security services; Crime & criminology; Legal history

A searing chronicle of how racist violence became an ingrained facet of law enforcement in the United States.

Too often, scholars and pundits argue either that police violence against African Americans has remained unchanged since the era of slavery or that it is a recent phenomenon and disconnected from the past. Neither view is accurate. In Bluecoated Terror, Jeffrey S. Adler draws on rich archival accounts to show, in narrative detail, how racialized police brutality is part of a larger system of state oppression with roots in the early twentieth-century South, particularly New Orleans.

Wide racial differentials in the use of lethal force and beatings during arrest and interrogation emerged in the 1930s and 1940s. Adler explains how race control and crime control blended and blurred during this era, when police officers and criminal justice officials began to justify systemic violence against Black people as a crucial—and legal—tool for maintaining law and order. Bluecoated Terror explores both the rise of these law-enforcement trends and their chilling resilience, providing critical context for recent horrific police abuses as the ghost of Jim Crow law enforcement continues to haunt the nation.

By: Jeffrey S. Adler
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 408g
ISBN: 9780520385603
ISBN 10: 0520385608
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 09 April 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jeffrey S. Adler is Professor of History and Criminology and Distinguished Teaching Scholar at the University of Florida, where his research and teaching focus on the history of American violence, law, and race relations.

Reviews for Bluecoated Terror: Jim Crow New Orleans and the Roots of Modern Police Brutality

""Historian and criminologist Adler reveals how today’s police brutality against African Americans has its roots in the racialized policing of nearly a century ago. Focusing on race-based law enforcement policies and practices during the1920s and 1930s, Adler marshals an extraordinary array of documents—crime surveys, homicide witness transcripts, autopsy reports, newspaper articles—to vividly illustrate the racial disparities in American criminal justice in New Orleans and throughout the urban South. . . . Highly recommended."" * CHOICE * “Adler has managed to write a book that is engaging, thought-provoking and timely. . . . A must-read; it contributes to the historiographical knowledge of any scholar or non-scholar seeking a better understanding of policing in America.” * Society for US Intellectual History *