Slow and Sudden Violence: Why and When Uprisings OccurExposing the roots of racial unrest that consistently harm Black communities In Slow and Sudden Violence, Derek Hyra links police violence to an ongoing cycle of racial and spatial urban redevelopment repression. By delving into the real estate histories of St. Louis and Baltimore, he shows how housing and community development policies advance neighborhood inequality by segregating, gentrifying, and displacing Black communities. Repeated decisions to “upgrade” the urban fabric and uproot low-income Black populations have resulted in pockets of poverty inhabited by people experiencing displacement trauma and police surveillance. These interconnected sets of divestments and accumulated frustrations have contributed to eruptions of violence in response to tragic, unjust police killings. To confront American unrest, Hyra urges that we end racialized policing, stop Black community destruction and displacement, and reduce neighborhood inequality. |
Contents
Police on West Florissant | 3 |
Baltimore burns | 6 |
Understanding Unrest | 15 |
Cycle of racial and spatial repression | 44 |
Segregation Divestment and Serial Displacement | 49 |
Segregation in the St Louis region 2010 | 57 |
Cleared area for the Arch | 62 |
Key locations in the St Louis region | 69 |
Key locations in Baltimore | 141 |
Highway to nowhere | 145 |
Lexington Terrace | 147 |
Ghetto Walls Come Down | 150 |
The Inner Harbor | 151 |
The Inner Harbors Sandlot | 156 |
The Lexington Terraces dynamite demolition | 159 |
Boardedup buildings | 163 |
PruittIgoes dynamite demolition 1972 | 74 |
The rubble from razed DarstWebbe highrises | 86 |
South St Louiss gentrification | 87 |
Signs of Black displacement in South St Louis | 88 |
Plantation Politics and Policing | 101 |
Ghetto Walls Go Up | 132 |
Segregation in Baltimore 2010 | 138 |
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