4:30pm-6:30pm
554 Barrows Hall
UC Berkeley
Facilitated by Rachel Herzing, Co-Director, The Center for Political Education.
Sponsored by: The American Cultures Center, Center for the Study of Law & Society, Department of Ethnic Studies, Office of Undergraduate Research & Scholarships.
The Black Lives Matter movement has elevated racism, policing, and prisons into the central issues of our era. Join the editors of the new book Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter (Verso, 2016) for a discussion about police repression and global resistance. Combining firsthand accounts from activists with the research of scholars and investigations from journalists, Policing the Planet traces the global spread of the broken-windows policing strategy. It’s a doctrine that has vastly broadened police power the world over—to deadly effect.
About the Authors:
Jordan T. Camp is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Race and Ethnicity and International and Public Affairs at Brown University. He is the author of Incarcerating the Crisis: Freedom Struggles and the Rise of the Neoliberal State (University of California Press, 2016), and co-editor (with Christina Heatherton) of Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter (Verso Books, 2016).
Christina Heathertonis assistant professor of American Studies at Trinity College, co-editor of Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter (Verso, 2016), and author of the forthcoming book, The Color Line and the Class Struggle: The Mexican Revolution, Internationalism, and the American Century (University of California Press, forthcoming).
