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The Harlem Uprising offers a powerful narrative of the riots and upheaval in Harlem and other African American neighborhoods in New York City in the summer of 1964. Hayes's vividly written book provides a stinging portrayal of midcentury New York from the perspective of Black New Yorkers and offers an important new historiography of the carceral state. -- Kim Phillips-Fein, author of <i>Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics</i>

The Harlem Uprising offers a powerful narrative of the riots and upheaval in Harlem and other African American neighborhoods in New York City in the summer of 1964. Hayes's vividly written book provides a stinging portrayal of midcentury New York from the perspective of Black New Yorkers and offers an important new historiography of the carceral state. -- Kim Phillips-Fein, author of <i>Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics</i> Such a needed study of New York's long history of racial inequality in housing, schools, jobs, and policing and the years of frustrated civil rights struggles that laid the ground for the 1964 Harlem uprising. Hayes examines Mayor Lindsay's decision to constitute a majority-civilian CCRB in its wake, the swift and successful police-led backlash that ended it, and the law and order politics that gained ascendancy in the city and the nation. -- Jeanne Theoharis, author of <i>A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History</i>

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Christopher Hayes teaches history in the Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations at Rutgers University.

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