Conversations on Race and Policing - California State University San Bernardino (CSUSB)
This series began in response to the police killing of George Floyd on May 25, 2020. In this work, we hope to explore, enlighten, and engage ourselves and the campus community with ongoing panel discussions, lectures, presentations, and film screenings related to the history and current context of race, policing, and criminal justice. We invite leading scholars, journalists, lawyers, healthcare professionals, current and veteran members of law enforcement, faith-based leaders, the formerly incarcerated, artists, activists, students, and more to share their experience, expertise, and passion with our university community and beyond. Our aim is to have an ongoing conversation about the way criminal justice operates – especially in communities of color – in order to empower and inform our students, faculty, staff, and residents of the Inland Empire. We have hosted over 110 weekly events to date. Please see our Lecture Series Archive (https://www.csusb.edu/corp/lecture-series-archive) for past events and recordings, and plan to join us online for Upcoming Events (https://www.csusb.edu/corp). Recordings of most events will be posted on their event pages after editing. We recognize that these are long and sometimes difficult conversations, as we continue the series into 2024-25, our fifth year.
Episodes
Join us in conversation with Georgia State's Dr. Thaddeus Johnson, Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies.
Reducing Community Violence to Close the Racial Gap in U.S. Imprisonment
Drawing on a comprehensive analysis by the Council on Criminal Justice (covering 2000–2020), this session will offer an in-depth examination of racial disparities in imprisonment at both the n...
Join us for a discussion with Dr. Simon Balto (University of Wisconsin-Madison, History). Find Dr. Balto's personal page here, and more information about his extensive scholarly writing and journalism. Dr. Balto's book, Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power (U. of Chicago, 2019) won the 2019 Hooks National Book Award from the Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change at the University of Memp...
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presentation and discussion with Professor Alison Phipps (Sociology), Newcastle University, UK, on "Sexual Violence as a Pretext for Disposal: Rape, Race and Carcerality."
Professor Alison Phipps is a political sociologist and scholar of gender with interests in feminist theory and politics, the body and violence and neoliberal racial capitalism. She has pursued these in various areas including sexual violence, sex work, reproduc...
Join us for a screening and discussion of "Breaking Barriers," a short film
Danny Murillo, who is featured in the film and is a co-founder of the Underground Scholars at Berkeley will join us to discuss the film.
Notes below from the film website, and find the Berkeley Underground Scholars Initiative here.
"Breaking Barriers follows a group of system-impacted students at Cal-Berkeley who face significant challenges as formerly inca...
In Conversation with Drs. Madeline Stenersen (Psychology, Saint Louis University) and Cassandra Young (Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies; University of Denver)
Join us on Zoom for a discussion with Drs. Madeline Stenersen (Psychology, Saint Louis University) and Cassandra Young (Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies; University of Denver). Drs. Young and Stenersen are experts in a wide range of topics related to gender, race,...
Join us for a conversation with Cat Brooks on the eradication of state violence and a pathway to true public safety.
Cat Brooks is host of Law & Disorder on KPFA (link) and a long-time performer, organizer, and activist. She played a central role in the struggle for justice for Oscar Grant, and spent the last decade working with impacted communities and families to rapidly respond to police violence and radically transform the ...
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Please join us for a conversation with Brennan Center Fellow and former FBI Special Agent, Michael German about his new book, Policing White Supremacy: The Enemy Within (The New Press, 2024). Find it here from the publisher, and here from Amazon.
Series organizers (alphabetical) are Amber Broaden (CSUSB and CSU Dominguez Hills, Psychology), Stan Futch (President, Westside Action Group), Michael German (Brennan Center for Justice), ...
Please join us for a conversation with Dr. Daanika Gordon (Sociology, Tufts University) about her recent book, Policing the Racial Divide: Urban Growth Politics and the Remaking of Segregation (NYU Press, 2022). Find it here from the publisher, and here from Amazon.
Find Dr. Gordon's webpage here.
Series organizers (alphabetical) are Amber Broaden (CSUSB and CSU Dominguez Hills, Psychology), Stan Futch (President, Westside Action G...
Join us for a conversation with Neal Kelley, Registrar of Voters, Orange County, CA (Ret.).
Neal Kelley is the retired Registrar of Voters for Orange County, California, the fifth largest voting jurisdiction in the United States, serving more than 1.9 million registered voters.
Kelley served as the Registrar of Voters from 2005 through 2022 and led the office through the largest cycle of elections since Orange County was founded in...
Please join us for a conversation with lawyer and independent journalist, Jessica Pishko about her new book, The Highest Law in the Land: How the Unchecked Power of Sheriffs Threatens Democracy (Penguin Random House, 2024). Find it here from the publisher, and here from Amazon.
Find more about Ms. Pishko on Substack (Posse Comitatus) here, on Democracy Docket here, on Slate here, on Medium here, at New America here, and at the Puli...
Please join us for a conversation with Spencer Sunshine (PhD, Sociology) for a presentation and discussion about his recent book, Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s Siege (Routledge, 2024).
Find more about Dr. Sunshine on his website here, and find the book at the Routledge website here.
From the Routledge website: "A new wave of aspiring neo-Nazi terrorists has arisen—includin...
Please join us for a conversation with National Book Award winning author, Jason Mott, about his recent book, Hell of a Book: or the Altogether Factual, Wholly Bona Fide Story of a Big Dreams, Hard Luck, American-Made Mad Kid (Penguin Random House, 2021). Find it here from the publisher, and here from Amazon.
This event will be guest hosted and moderated by CSUSB Provost & Vice President for Academic Affairs, Dr. Rafik Mohamed...
A conversation with Dr. Michael Sierra-Arévalo (Sociology, University of Texas, Austin) about his new book, The Danger Imperative: Violence, Death, and the Soul of Policing (Columbia University Press, 2024). Find it here from the publisher, and here from Amazon.
Find Dr. Sierra-Arévalo's homepage here.
Series organizers (alphabetical) are Amber Broaden (CSUSB and CSU Dominguez Hills, Psychology), Stan Futch (President, Westside Act...
Join us for a conversation with Dr. Kellie Carter Jackson (Wellesley, Africana Studies, faculty page link).
Find Dr. Carter Jackson's website here (link).
Dr. Carter Jackson's upcoming book, We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance, will be published June 4 and can be pre-ordered, details at the publisher's website here (link) or Amazon here (link).
Zoom link: https://tinyurl.com/csusb-race-policing
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