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How Racism, Sex Panics, and Fiorello La Guardia Made the Modern NYPD
Historian Emily Brooks’s new book “Gotham’s War Within a War” explores how today’s NYPD was built against the backdrop of World War II and the need for “national security.”
Half-Steps and Abandonment: The Failure to Integrate NYC Schools
In “The Battle Nearer to Home: The Persistence of School Segregation in New York City,” Lehman College professor, and DJ, Christopher Bonastia looks at the history of school desegregation efforts and the reasons behind their failures.
August 13, 2022
How Rikers Island Made New York
In “Captives,” former Rikers detainee Jarrod Shanahan traces the history of New York City’s sprawling jail complex, and its centrality to New York’s brutal class struggle.
May 16, 2022
