Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies Special Issue: “Hands Up! Don’t Shoot!”: Policing Race in America June 2016; Vol. 16, No. 3

Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies

Special Issue: “Hands Up! Don’t Shoot!”: Policing Race in America

June 2016; Vol. 16, No. 3

Introduction Introduction: “Hands Up! Don’t Shoot!”: Policing Race in America Bryant Keith Alexander

Articles The Ever-Shifting Excuses for Demonizing Black People in America Marcelo Diversi Making #BlackLivesMatter: Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and the Specters of Black Life—Toward a Hauntology of Blackness Kashif Jerome Powell Uncomfortably Predictable: Race, Community, and the Cycle of Violence Donte Nebi Hilliard Cop Watch/Cop Listen/Cop Move: Policing the Police With Performative Methodologies Sharrell D. Luckett and Jeb Aram Middlebrook “Bring Out Your Dead”: Understanding the Historical Persistence of the Criminalization of Black Bodies Marquis Bey Militarized Police and Unpermitted Protest: Implementing Policy That Civilizes the Police Jamar Myers-Montgomery Visual Profiling as Biopolitics: Or, Notes on Policing in Post-Racial #AmeriKKKa Byron B Craig and Stephen E. Rahko “Not So Black and White”: Discussions of Race on Twitter in the Aftermath of #Ferguson and the Shooting Death of Mike Brown Irfan Chaudhry Hands Up, Don’t Shoot, Whose Side Are You On? Journalists Tweeting the Ferguson Protests José Andrés Araiza, Heloisa Aruth Sturm, Pinar Istek, and Mary Angela Bock If They Gunned Me Down and Criming While White: An Examination of Twitter Campaigns Through the Lens of Citizens’ Media Roni Jackson Good Kids, Mad Cities: Kendrick Lamar and Finding Inner Resistance in Response to FergusonUSA Bettina L. Love Critical Negotiations and Black Lives: An Africana Womanist Analysis to Raise Consciousness Rondee Gaines Breathe, Baby, Breathe: Clearing the Way for the Emotional Emancipation of Black People Cheryl N. Grills, Enola G. Aird, and Daryl Rowe