Policing is constitutive of colonial modernity: normalizing, internalizing, and legalizing anti-Black violence as the ongoing condition for white life and freedom. The result, Tia Trafford argues here, is a situation where we cannot practically experience or even imagine worlds free from policing. From the plantation to the prison, global apartheid, and pandemic control, this book examines why and how policing has become the most ingrained, commonsense—and insidious—way of managing our world.

$10.00 paper ISBN 978-1-5179-1686-2
$4.95 retail e-book ISBN 978-1-4529-7079-0
112 pages, 5 x 7, January 2024