{"product_id":"mississippi-law-policing-and-reform-in-americas-jim-crow-countryside-paperback","title":"Mississippi Law: Policing and Reform in America's Jim Crow Countryside - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJustin Randolph\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the segregated American South, policing was war. Rampant police violence came to the back roads and cattle pastures of America's rural countryside as ideas of race, property, and belonging reshaped the role of government in everyday life. In \u003ci\u003eMississippi Law\u003c\/i\u003e, Justin Randolph explores rural law enforcement to explain US racial authoritarianism between the Civil War and the civil rights movement. In Jim Crow Mississippi, the force behind the police officer's autocracy carried legacies of empire and slavery into the age of agribusiness and automobiles--from state troops and slave patrols to state troopers and highway patrols. But this is no isolated story of individual barbarism. US military and reform traditions informed ruling-class beliefs in thoughtful police improvement through both the state militia and its inheritor, the state police.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBlack Mississippians fought to raise awareness and defend their loved ones against the violence spawned by paramilitary police reform. Some took up arms against police officers; others imagined a legal off-ramp to remake public safety after Jim Crow. Ultimately, the transformation of what one activist called \"Mississippi Law\" came with more funding and more authority for policing, a key piece of infrastructure for the age of mass incarceration that followed the civil rights revolution. Recounting the works of both famous and forgotten activists, \u003ci\u003eMississippi Law\u003c\/i\u003e is a genealogy of Jim Crow rule and dreams of a safety that might have been and might yet be.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJustin Randolph is assistant professor of history at Texas A\u0026amp;M University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 324\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9.2 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 21, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51978314285357,"sku":"9781469689487","price":47.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/3Rry4yup6r9781469689487.webp?v=1775801576","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/mississippi-law-policing-and-reform-in-americas-jim-crow-countryside-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}