How Long to Read Race and the Houston Police Department, 1930–1990

How Long Does it Take to Read Race and the Houston Police Department, 1930–1990?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 53 minutes to read Race and the Houston Police Department, 1930–1990 by Dwight D. Watson

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In Houston, as in the rest of the American South up until the 1950s, the police force reflected and enforced the segregation of the larger society. When the nation began to change in the 1950s and 1960s, this guardian of the status quo had to change, too. It was not designed to do so easily. Dwight Watson traces how the Houston Police Department reacted to social, political, and institutional change over a fifty-year period—and specifically, how it responded to and in turn influenced racial change. Using police records as well as contemporary accounts, Watson astutely analyzes the escalating strains between the police and segments of the city’s black population in the 1967 police riot at Texas Southern University and the 1971 violence that became known as the Dowling Street Shoot-Out. The police reacted to these events and to daily challenges by hardening its resolve to impose its will on the minority community. By 1977, the events surrounding the beating and drowning of Jose Campos Torres while in police custody prompted one writer to label the HPD the “meanest police in America.” This event encouraged Houston’s growing Mexican American community to unite with blacks in seeking to curb police autonomy and brutality. Watson’s study demonstrates vividly how race complicated the internal impulses for change and gave way through time to external pressures—including the Civil Rights Movement, modernization, annexations, and court-ordered redistricting—for institutional changes within the department. His work illuminates not only the role of a southern police department in racial change but also the internal dynamics of change in an organization designed to protect the status quo.

How long is Race and the Houston Police Department, 1930–1990?

Race and the Houston Police Department, 1930–1990 by Dwight D. Watson is 227 pages long, and a total of 58,339 words.

This makes it 77% the length of the average book. It also has 71% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Race and the Houston Police Department, 1930–1990 Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 18 minutes to read Race and the Houston Police Department, 1930–1990 aloud.

What Reading Level is Race and the Houston Police Department, 1930–1990?

Race and the Houston Police Department, 1930–1990 is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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