{"id":11670,"date":"2024-08-18T16:44:14","date_gmt":"2024-08-18T16:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/?p=11670"},"modified":"2025-07-25T03:00:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T03:00:38","slug":"the-politics-of-safety-the-black-freedom-struggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/the-politics-of-safety-the-black-freedom-struggle\/","title":{"rendered":"The Politics of Safety: The Black Freedom Struggle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Shannon King, Fairfield University<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Watch a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/oNXB02abBOw?si=e27p06qxseC693Qx\">recording<\/a> of Shannon King&#8217;s lecture on our YouTube channel.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. King discusses Black resistance to racial violence outside the South from the Great Depression to the 1990s through the lens of what he calls the \u201cpolitics of safety.\u201d Building on some of the stories in his new book, <em>The Politics of Safety: The Black Struggle for Police Accountability in La Guardia\u2019s New York<\/em>, he suggests alternative ways to understand and teach African American history and Black social movements in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>King is an Associate Professor of History at Fairfield University. His research focuses on the Black freedom struggle outside the South, particularly New York City during the first half of the twentieth century. His work has appeared in the <em>Journal of African American History<\/em> (forthcoming), <em>Journal of Urban History<\/em>, and <em>Reviews in American History<\/em>; and he has essays in <em>Understanding and Teaching the Civil Rights Movement<\/em>, <em>The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North<\/em>, and <em>Escape from New York!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Shannon King, Fairfield University<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4099,"featured_media":11671,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[285],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-democracy-past"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4099"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11670"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11787,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11670\/revisions\/11787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}