From "fuck tha police" to defund the police : a polemic, with elements of pragmatism and accommodation, hopefully not fatal, as black people hope about encounters with the police / Paul Butler -- Hip hop and traffic stops / Henry L. Chambers, Jr. -- "Black cop" : it's a blue thing (or is it?) / Kami Chavis -- "Illegal search" : race, personhood, and policing / Roger A. Fairfax, Jr. -- "Cops shot the kid" : police brutality, mass incarceration, and the reasonableness doctrine in criminal law / Kristin Henning -- Trauma / André Douglas Pond Cummings -- Black steel in the hour of chaos / Gregory S. Parks -- Roxanne Shanté's "independent woman" : making space for women in hip hop / Lolita Buckner Innis -- From the 1930s to the 2020s : what Ice Cube's song "Endangered Species" meant for four generations of black males / Robert Pervine, Kevin Brown, Charles Westerhaus, and Kynton Grays -- The master's tools will not dismantle the master's house : hip hop, young M.A., and gender norms / Zoe Smith-Holladay and Catherine Smith -- "Black rage" and the architecture of racial oppression / Deborah Archer -- Abolition as reparations : "this is America" and the anatomy of a modern protest anthem / Brie McLemore & Margaret Eby -- The message : resisting cultures of poverty in urban America / Etienne C. Toussaint -- "Just to get by" : poverty, racism, and smoking through the lens of Talib Kweli and Nina Simone's music / Ruqaiijah Yearby.