“America on Fire,” by the Yale University scholar Elizabeth Hinton, connects the unrest of the civil rights era to shifts in social policy authorizing aggressive police tactics whose destructive repercussions are evident today.“America on Fire,” by the Yale University scholar Elizabeth Hinton, connects the unrest of the civil rights era to shifts in social policy authorizing aggressive police tactics whose destructive repercussions are evident today.Read MoreBooks and Literature, Police Brutality, Misconduct and Shootings, Black Lives Matter Movement, Demonstrations, Protests and Riots, Civil Rights Movement (1954-68), Race and Ethnicity, Hinton, Elizabeth K (1983- ), America On Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s (Book)
