Professor Jeffrey Adler was awarded a Publication Subvention Grant for his monograph Bluecoated Terror: The Roots of Police Brutality in Modern America, forthcoming from the University Press of California in 2024. This book explores the roots of modern police brutality against African Americans by charting the early twentieth-century transformation of racial violence from a series of extra-legal vigilante campaigns into a purposeful, systemic, and purportedly legally justifiable expression of the government mandate to preserve “law and order.” The book focuses on New Orleans and the urban South, where municipal policing intended to safeguard white supremacy also triggered a fierce response from African Americans, launching the early Civil Rights Movement during the years before World War II.