Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: An Old World Is Dying 1
5. CHAPTER 1. The Explosion in Watts: The Second Reconstruction and the Cold War Roots of the Carceral State 21
6. CHAPTER 2. Finally Got the News: Urban Insurgency, Counterinsurgency, and the Crisis of Hegemony in Detroit 43
7. CHAPTER 3. The Sound Before the Fury: Attica, Racialized State Violence, and the Neoliberal Turn 68
8. CHAPTER 4. Reading the Writing on the Wall: The Los Angeles Uprising and the Carceral City 98
9. CHAPTER 5. What’s Going On?: Moral Panics and Militarization in Post-Katrina New Orleans 116
10. CHAPTER 6. Shut ’Em Down: Social Movements Confront Mass Homelessness and Mass Incarceration in Los Angeles 134
11. Epilogue: The Poetry of the Future 146
12. Notes 155
13. Bibliography 217
14. Index 255
15. AMERICAN CROSSROADS 264