Sublime

En passe de devenir une figure emblématique, mais controversée, du mouvement africain-américain, Williams va faire de la section locale de la NAACP une véritable « unité de combat10 », essentiellement composée de vétérans expérimentés11, décidée à mettre un terme à l’injustice raciale et à l’« Empire invisible » (terme par lequel s’autodésigne le K

Florida drew the transient and rootless on the eternal promise of a second chance, with more than its share of scammers and con men. So who was to say the guy living next door wasn’t one of them? A subdivision like Carriage Pointe was Jane Jacobs’s vision of hell.

It is fashionable to suppose that certain touchstones of the good life will create good neighborhoods—schools, parks, clean housing and the like. How easy life would be if this were so! How charming to control a complicated and ornery society by bestowing upon it rather simple physical goodies. In real life, cause and effect are not so simple. Thus

Thompson, tireless and unrelenting, brought her case to the Minnesota Court of Appeals. There her lawyers argued eloquently that it was “astonishing” that a judge would issue an order that would “have the effect of limiting Sharon Kowalski’s contact with Thompson and the love Karen feels for her.” The lawyers demanded to know, “In what moral framew

“broken windows theory” of disorder within neighborhoods.

Whatever may be said about America’s sordid racialized past and the socioeconomic factors that underlie street crime, the unfortunate reality is that at this moment black people commit a vastly disproportionate share of street crime. For that reason, and for that reason alone, they will necessarily be contacted by the police more than other ethnic