Anne Gray Fischer will discuss her new book, “The Streets Belong to Us: Sex, Race, and Police Power from Segregation to Gentrification.”

Fischer is a historian of the twentieth-century United States. Her research and teaching explores histories of gender, sexuality, and race; law enforcement and the state; and feminist activisms in the modern United States. Her book, The Streets Belong to Us: Sex, Race, and Police Power from Segregation to Gentrification, is a history of sexual policing between Prohibition and the rise of broken windows policing in the 1980s.

Fischer teaches U.S. gender history at the University of Texas at Dallas. She received her PhD in History from Brown University with a Certificate in Gender and Sexuality Studies. Essays adapted from The Streets Belong to Us have appeared in the Journal of American History and the Journal of Social History. She has published op-eds, review essays, and interviews in the Washington Post, Boston Review, Bitch, and elsewhere.

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This talk is part of Off the Shelf, a collaboration between the University Libraries and the UNC Press to present new works on racial and social justice in our history and our world.

To order this book, visit uncpress.org or call 1-800-848-6224. To receive a 40% discount off the book price, register for this event and you will receive a discount code.