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How to Lose the Hounds: Maroon Geographies and a World Beyond Policing

Fri, Nov 03

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Sankofa Video, Books, & Café

We're excited to launch the critical new book How to Lose the Hounds: Maroon Geographies and a World Beyond Policing written by Celeste Winston! Celeste will be in conversation with Jalil Mustaffa Bishop!

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Nov 03, 2023, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM

Sankofa Video, Books, & Café, 2714 Georgia Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001, USA

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About the book:

In How to Lose the Hounds Celeste Winston explores marronage--the practice of flight from and placemaking beyond slavery--as a guide to police abolition. She examines historically Black maroon communities in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC, that have been subjected to violent excesses of police power from slavery until the present day. Tracing the long and ongoing historical geography of Black freedom struggles in the face of anti-Black police violence in these communities, Winston shows how marronage provides critical lessons for reimagining public safety and community well-being. These freedom struggles take place in what Winston calls maroon geographies--sites of flight from slavery and the spaces of freedom produced in multigenerational Black communities. Maroon geographies constitute part of a Black placemaking tradition that asserts life-affirming forms of community. Winston contends that maroon geographies operate as a central method of Black flight, holding ground, and constructing…

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