BIBFRAME Work

Title

How to lose the hounds

Other Titles (e.g. Variant)

Maroon geographies and a world beyond policing

Type

• Text
• Monograph

Contribution

• Winston, Celeste, 1992- (author)

Subject

• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies (BISACSH)
• African Americans--Social conditions (LCSH)
• Police-community relations--Maryland--History (LCSH)
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography (BISACSH)
• Community organization--Maryland--History (LCSH)
• Police abolition movement (LCSH)
• African Americans--Segregation--Maryland--History (LCSH)
• African Americans--Civil rights--Maryland--History (LCSH)
• Racism--Maryland (LCSH)
• African Americans--Violence against (LCSH)
• Police brutality--Maryland (LCSH)
• Police misconduct--Maryland (LCSH)
• Discrimination in law enforcement--Maryland--History (LCSH)
• Maryland--Race relations--History (LCSH)

Language

• English

Illustrative Content

• illustrations

Classification

• SOC001000
• SOC015000
• DDC: 975.2 (Assigner: dlc)
• LCC: E185.93.M2 W567 2023 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)

Content

• text

Supplementary content

• bibliography
• index

Summary

"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 places of freedom in ways that imagine and plan a world beyond policing"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Maroon Folklore as an Abolition Technology -- The Fugitive Infrastructure of Maroon Geographies -- Maroon Justice -- Community beyond Policing -- Maroon Geographies and the Paradox of Abolition Policy -- Abolition Future Folklore.

Authorized Access Point

Winston, Celeste, 1992-. How to lose the hounds

Geographic Coverage

• Maryland

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-11T20:18:07.817950+00:00
• Agent: cbc
• Status: c
• Derived from: 23099428

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• Date: 2026-09-11
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• Description language: eng
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