Create, Don't Destroy: Laying the Foundation for a Public Discourse on Racial Justice in Germany

Janina L. Selzer — 2020-09-15T05:00:00Z

A night of violence left Stuttgart, a usually peaceful German city, with many unanswered questions. While politicians immediately condemned the violence as an attack on liberal democracy, some journalists saw the event as an uprising by young men of color against systemic racism. In this article, Janina Selzer makes a case for moving past these partial framings by accepting the possibility of a chaotic, multifaceted, and intersectional explanation for a destructive night.
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- Essays / violence, Germany, racism, justice, racial justice, race, Stuttgart, riots, urban unrest

When Does Police Violence Cause Urban Unrest?

Cathy Lisa Schneider — 2017-11-14T06:00:00Z

In the summer of 2014, police killed Michael Brown in Ferguson and Eric Garner in New York. Both men were black and unarmed. Both their deaths sparked national outrage. And both cases were turned over to a grand jury whose members failed to indict. But while the first case provoked weeks of violent police–community confrontation, the second initiated constructive political action. Drawing on interviews with people close to both men, Cathy Schneider argues that the difference amounts to the

- Debates / racism, United States, police, New York, violence, brutality, police violence, urban unrest, riots, police accountability, St. Louis, Ferguson, Missouri

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Create, Don't Destroy: Laying the Foundation for a Public Discourse on Racial Justice in Germany

When Does Police Violence Cause Urban Unrest?