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The Black Shield: An American Memoir Of Family And Power
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Both An Epic History And An Intimate Family Story, A Startling Account Of The Lives Of Black Cops In One Midwestern City.In The Wake Of The George Floyd Protests, A Black Police Organization In Cleveland Called The Black Shield Was Causing A Stir. Officers Broke Ranks With Their Fellow Cops, Aligning Themselves With Local Black Lives Matter Activists And Supporting Demands For Radical Reforms. In The Midst Of These Fissures, Wilbert L. Cooper Returned To His Hometown To Write A Profile Of The OrganizationS President, Who Had Become Notorious Years Earlier For Shooting A Young Unarmed Black Man.For Cooper, The News Was Deeply Personal. Both Of His Parents Are Retired Black Cleveland Cops, His Sister Was A Cleveland Cop, And On His MotherS Side, ThereS Been A Cleveland Cop In The Family Since 1950. Unearthing The Dramatic Histories Of The Black Shield And His Own Family, Cooper Tells The Intertwined Stories Of The Two: His Relatives, Who Trace Their Roots Back To The Great Migration And Who Chose Policing Because It Was One Of The Few Stepping Stones To Economic Security And Status In A Segregated City; And An Organization That, Over Decades Of Cultural And Political Upheaval, Cycled Endlessly Between Rebellion And Acquiescence.An Intimate, Bold Work Of Literary Nonfiction, The Black Shield Is An Urgent Exploration Of The Complex Duality Of The Black Cop. Cooper Grapples With A Knot Of Contradictions: Is The Black Officer A Sign Of Progressive Change, Or Of The SystemS Masterful Way Of Changing Its Appearance Without Changing Its Outcomes? How Can He Reconcile The Fact That Policing Helped Lift His Family Out Of Poverty, And The Equally Real Panic That Accompanies Being Pulled Over? Fearless And Singularly Powerful, Cooper Gives Us An American Story About Race And Power Of A Kind That Has Never Been Told Before.
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