October 6, 2020
From Slavery to Police Brutality: The History of the United States Racist Policing
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Thursday, Oct 8, 3 – 4:30pm, Livestream
Racial Justice: be the change
Fall 2020 Speaker Series Presented by the College of Humanities, Education, and Social Sciences
FROM SLAVERY TO POLICE BRUTALITY: THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES’ RACIST POLICING
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
REGISTER IN ADVANCE FOR THIS WEBINAR: https://bit.ly/3mZBcI2
Description: Dr. Jason Williams will present about US Policing as Racialized Social Control: Canvassing Baltimore and Ferguson. His talk will intersectionalize our understanding of policing and recommend the need for a more historical and complicated approach toward policing practice and understanding. Dr. Saleh Hanna will introduce her scholarship on Black feminist hauntology and an abolitionist theory on crime to assess the abusive praxis of criminal justice, policing and white supremacy in the United States.