America is burning/美利坚在燃烧

In The Racial Injustice of the Past, acclaimed professor Elizabeth Hinton draws on previously untapped sources to consider the institutional causes of racial inequality in the United States, past and present. She argues that we cannot understand the American racial struggle without confronting the shocking violence and vastness of the police system. A leading scholar of policing, Hinton highlights a crucial lesson in the book—that police violence breeds community violence—and shows how policymakers continue to get away with it, responding by further criminalizing entire groups rather than addressing the underlying socioeconomic causes.

本书中, 广受赞誉的教授伊丽莎白·欣顿利用以前未被发掘的资料, 对美国过去和现在的种族不平等的制度性原因进行了思考。她认为, 如果不正视令人震惊的暴力和庞大的警察制度, 我们就无法理解美国种族斗争。作为警务方面的一位著名学者, 欣顿强调了书中一个至关重要的教训--警察暴力会引发社区暴力, 并展示了政策制定者如何继续逃避, 他们的反应是进一步将整个群体定罪, 而不是解决潜在的社会经济原因。