In the book “All American Boys” the author, Brendan Kiely and Jason Reynolds convey an important theme in this book because they bring attention to police brutality and shows the differences between the way Rashad and Quinn are treated in an extreme act of police brutality. “You think it would have been the same if the lady wasn't white, or if Rashad wasn't black.” pg (183). This quote shows that Rasahd wouldn't have gotten harmed if the officer didn't stereotype the situation completely.
All American Boys is a gripping and thought provoking book that explores issues of police brutality, racism, and social justice in America through the perspective of two teenagers Rashad Butler and Quinn Collins. Rashad is a sixteen year old african american who is brutally beaten by a white police officer while Quinn a white classmate of Rashad is a witness of the assault. The story follows their intertwined stories as they deal with their respective identities, beliefs, and responsibilities in the aftermath of Rashad's assault. The Supporting Characters are Rashad's father a former police officer who believes that the good cops outnumber the bad ones.
Police brutality has become a very controversial topic in the United States over the past few years. The book All American Boys written by Brendan Kiely and Jason Reynolds, tells the perspectives of two high school boys from Springfield and how police brutality has impacted their lives. Rashad is a black male who loves to draw, he is also in ROTC but only does it to make his father happy. Rashad lives in a traditional nuclear family with his mother, father, and older brother Spoony. His best friends are English, Shannon, and Carlos.
All American Boys Writing Prompt #3 In today’s media racial injustice is still occurring today because there’s people who are treated differently bias on their race. In the novel “All American Boys” by Jasyn Reynolds and Brendan Kiely tells how Rashad was accused of stealing a bag of chips at the store called Jerry’s. The police officer beat Rashad just because he was resisting arrest but he wasn’t.
In Punishment: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys, Victor Rios’ thesis is that “criminalization was a central, pervasive and ubiquitous phenomenon that impacted the everyday lives of the young people [he] studied in Oakland.” Rios studied the youth living in Oakland, California. He observed how they acted and how they were treated in society. His goal was to understand how youths in these networks of crime, criminalization, and punishment made sense of these practices and to observe their relations with authority figures. In Punished, Rios (2011) studies interconnected inquiries regarding the practice of criminalization using a sample of forty Black and Latino boys, between the ages of 14-18 years old.
Stewart, Gail B. 2005. "Police Brutality." Lucent Books. Print.
Annotated Bibliography Books Dudley, William, et al., editors. Police Brutality. D.L. Bender, 1991. • Police Brutality gives information on how police brutality is a widespread issue in the United States and explains different controversies and cases that relate to police brutality. • The editors of this book include activists and nonfiction authors who provide reliable information on what happened during different incidences of police brutality and the viewpoints and controversies that come with it.
This causes him to go on a journey of realizing how corrupt the police force is and relearning to think on his own. Throughout the story, Quinn's positive development can be seen when he realizes how corrupt and racist both the police force and society are. First, as the book develops he comes to a realization that staying silent about racism is unacceptable. Rather than keeping his opinions to himself and deciding everyone else
All American Boys, co-written written by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely, is a young adult novel told from the perspectives of two high school classmates, Rashad Butler and Quinn Collins. Rashad is savagely beaten by a police officer who wrongly suspects that he is shoplifting, and Quinn witnesses the entire beating but originally pretends he did not. The purpose of this essay is to analyze the novel, All American Boys, looking at it through the lens of a racial and ethnical theory. Often times race and ethnicity can be confused as the same thing, but this essay will use two separate working definitions.
N.W.A.- Fuck tha Police was made because police officers forced the group to lay face down in the street with guns to their heads. In the 80’s police brutality was at high, and young African American teens were there target.
All American Boys should continue to be included in the curriculum because it shows examples of sources of power. On Tuesday a couple of days after Rahshad was beaten and sent to the hospital. He was on the news because of police brutality so everyone knows what happened to him. Quinn gets to school to see neon blue letters spray painted on the sidewalk spelling “RASHAD IS ABSENT AGAIN TODAY” (165). Carlos, one of Rashad´s friends, was the one who spray painted the sidewalk, he was one of the first people to speak out which caused the community to come out and take sides:
The Plague of the United States era, society is insistently assured by police and their apologist, is not the extensive abuse and other frequent misconduct by law enforcements officers, but the expanding “disrespect for authority” that is being encouraged by “liberals” and those more extensive individuals called “libertarians” The widespread media coverage of police brutality has become too common within our societies everyday life, thus causing destruction of the communities trust. Savage treatment is continually afflicted among African Americans as a replacement form of punishment. A substantial number of casualties of police brutality are African Americans, for instance during August 9th within a house of Brooklyn, an African American
Almost every year hundreds to thousands of African Americans are killed due to police brutality. Over like a hundred of African Americans were killed this year because of police brutality. Everyone who has been a part of police brutality, their families have to go on with life knowing someone really special to them is not in their life anymore. Many families are devastated this year because they have lost a family member or a spouse due to this situation. Many African Americans think that police brutality is not right.
Police brutality is a common thing going on in today’s society everywhere around the world. A famous incident that happened that caught everyone’s attention was the Trayvon Martin shooting that happened in Sanford, Florida. He was a teenager that was gunned down by George Zimmerman who was a neighborhood watch volunteer. he feared for his life when Martin was coming from the store with a black hoodie on. In the song Beyoncé uses black kids dressed in black hoodies in the video dancing and police officers surrounding them in riot gear.
The police department of Los Angeles slogan is, “to protect and to serve.” To protect and to serve as in providing safety and assistance. As of November 29, 2015, 1,077 citizens have been killed by a United States’ police. That is equivalent to at least one death every eight hours. Do you feel protected?
