Professor Frank Rudy Cooper discusses his article, “Cop Fragility and Blue Lives Matter.” Professor Cooper discusses how after the rise of Black Lives Matter protests […]
Cop Fragility and Blue Lives Matter with Frank Rudy Cooper
Role-Playing in Police Trainings with Christina Aushana
Christina Aushana discusses her article “Inescapable Scripts: Role-Playing Feminist (re)visions and Rehearsing Racialize State Violence in Police Training Scenarios.” Professor Aushana talks about participating in […]
Plea Bargaining Bad Deals with Carissa Byrne Hessick
Professor Carissa Byrne Hessick discusses her book, “Punishment Without Trial,” and how plea bargaining has overtaken the criminal justice system. While our rights to a […]
What Modern Medicine Gained from Slavery
Medical science in antebellum America was a paradox: it presumed African Americans to be less than human yet still human enough to be useful as […]
Migrant Suffering and White Democracy with Cristina Beltrán
Cristina Beltrán discusses her book, “Cruelty as Citizenship How Migrant Suffering Sustains White Democracy.” Prof. Beltrain explains the how Herrenvolk Democracy is useful in understanding […]
Black Trans Feminism Liberation with Marquis Bey
Professor Marquis Bey discusses their book, BLACK TRANS FEMINISM in which they argue that how we define, label, and identify ourselves can be a way […]
Thin Blue Line of Police Unions with Aaron Bekemeyer
Professor Aaron Bekemeyer discusses the complicated history of police unionization. How police balanced their role as union busters and political enforcers with their desire for […]
Hemings, Baartman and Complicated Fame with Samantha Pinto
Professor Samantha Pinto discusses her book, Infamous Bodies Early Black Women’s Celebrity and the Afterlives of Rights. Using the idea of “vulnerability” as a touchstone […]
White Supremacist Constitution with Ruth Colker
Professor Ruth Colker discusses her 2022 Utah Law Review article, “The White Supremacist Constitution.” The United States Constitution is a document that, during every era, […]
Problems in Police Training with Jessica Katzenstein
Unpacking Our History Lecture: Problems in Police Training with Jessica Katzenstein Police reform advocates often push police departments to move from fear-laden “warrior” survival trainings […]
