Chokehold: Policing Black Men

{{Short description|2017 non fiction book by Paul Butler}}

{{Infobox book

| name = Chokehold: Policing Black Men

| author = Paul Butler

| published = July 11, 2017

| publisher = The New Press

| isbn = 9781595589057

| image = Chokehold.jpg

| genre = non-fiction

| subjects = Criminal justice, race discrimination, race relations

}}

Chokehold: Policing Black Men is a 2017 non fiction book by Paul Butler. It was nominated for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in the Nonfiction category in 2018.{{Cite web|title=NAACP Image Awards: Full List of Winners|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/2018-naacp-image-award-winners-complete-list-1064208|access-date=2020-06-11|website=The Hollywood Reporter|date=14 January 2018 |language=en}}{{Cite news|last=Valerie Strauss|title=Resources to teach the history of policing in America that you won't find in textbooks|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/06/09/resources-teach-history-policing-america-that-you-wont-find-textbooks/|access-date=2020-06-11|newspaper=Washington Post|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=Chokehold: Policing Black Men by Paul Butler|url=https://aalbc.com/books/bookinfo.php?isbn13=9781595589057|access-date=2020-06-11|website=aalbc.com: African American Literature Book Club|language=en}}{{Cite news|last=Laughland|first=Oliver|date=2017-08-11|title=I worked as a prosecutor. Then I was arrested. The experience made a man out of me. It made a black man out of me|language=en-GB|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/11/chokehold-book-paul-butler-us-police-african-americans|access-date=2020-06-11|issn=0261-3077}}{{Cite news|last=Hinton|first=Elizabeth|date=2017-07-26|title=Three New Books Discuss How to Confront and Reform Racist Policing|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/26/books/review/called-to-rise-david-brown-policing-the-black-man-paul-butler.html|access-date=2020-06-11|issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite web|date=2019-02-13|title=Chokehold: Policing Black Men|url=https://clcjbooks.rutgers.edu/books/chokehold-policing-black-men/|access-date=2020-06-11|website=Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Book Reviews|language=en-US}}