Ferguson: Externalizing Their Internal Explosions
On August 9, 2014, police in Ferguson, a suburb of St Louis, shot an 18-year-old unarmed black youth, setting off a spate of riots in the neighborhood. The...
Cathy Lisa Schneider is an associate professor in the School of International Service, American University Washington DC. She is the author of Police Power and Race Riots: Urban Unrest in Paris and New York (Philadelphia: Penn Press, 2014) and Shantytown Protest in Pinochet’s Chile (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995).