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WATCHING AND SEEING

Recovering Abolitionist Possibilities in Black Community Practices of Safety and Security

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2021

Amaka Okechukwu
Amaka Okechukwu*
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, George Mason University
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Corresponding author: Amaka Okechukwu, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, George Mason University, 4400 University Drive, MS 3G5, Fairfax, Virginia 22030. E-mail: aokechuk@gmu.edu.
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Abstract

This article explores grassroots practices of community safety and security in Brooklyn, New York through a framework that centers the abolitionist practices imbedded in Black neighborhood collective action. Literature on safety and security often conflates the two concepts, not considering how grounded applications of the two may produce different outcomes and approaches to community well-being. Additionally, we know little about how Black communities build safety and security from the ground up. And while academic scholarship on abolition provides a robust theoretical foundation, more examples of how communities could and do employ police abolition are needed. Utilizing archival research and oral history interviews, I argue that a crisis of police legitimacy compelled alternatives to formal policing in New York City during the urban crisis, or the postwar period of massive urban divestment and hyper-ghettoization. These efforts included masculinized security practices such as neighborhood patrols and protests, while community safety practices included forms of neighborhood sociality grounded in feminized and queer relationships of care and concern. These efforts, which critiqued institutional racism and neglect and emerged from the indigenous knowledge base and social networks of community members, provide considerations for recovering abolitionist practices in Black neighborhood collective action and implications for building alternatives to policing. This article contributes to literature on Black communities, collective action, and abolition by offering an intersectional analysis of the various ways Black social and political engagement centers on practices of safety and security and does not always fixate on conscripting a police response.

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SafetySecurityAbolitionAgencyCollective ActionResistanceCrimeBlack Community
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Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , Spring 2021 , pp. 153 - 180
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© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Hutchins Center for African and African American Research

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