Conversations on Race and Policing - California State University San Bernardino (CSUSB)

Feb 26, 2024 - In Conversation with Gisela Perez Kusakawa (Asian-American Scholar Forum, director)

Join us for a conversation with Gisela Perez Kusakawa (Asian-American Scholar Forum, director, link).
Find Ms. Kusakawa's recent article "From Japanese American Incarceration to the China Initiative, Discrimination Against AAPI Communities Must End" for the ACLU here (link).
Zoom link: https://tinyurl.com/csusb-race-policing
Thank you to the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, and the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee for sponsoring this event along with Pfau Library.
Series organizers: Dr. Mary Texeira (CSUSB Sociology), Robie Madrigal (Pfau Library), Stan Futch (President, Westside Action Group), Dr. Jeremy Murray (CSUSB History), Matt Patino (Crafton Hills College Adjunct Faculty), Michael German (Brennan Center for Justice). Click here to view previous panels in the Conversations on Race and Policing series (link).

March 4, 2024 - In Conversation with Rosemary (“Ruby”) Nidiry (Brennan Center for Justice)

Join us for a conversation with Rosemary (“Ruby”) Nidiry, a Senior Counsel in the Justice Program at the Brennan Center for Justice (link). She manages the program’s Law Enforcement Leaders to Reduce Crime and Incarceration project, a coalition of nearly 200 police chiefs, correctional officials and federal and state prosecutors from around the country committed to laws and practices that more effectively fight crime while reducing unnecessary imprisonment. More information here (link).
Recording Coming Soon
Thank you to the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, and the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee for sponsoring this event along with Pfau Library.
Series organizers: Dr. Mary Texeira (CSUSB Sociology), Robie Madrigal (Pfau Library), Stan Futch (President, Westside Action Group), Dr. Jeremy Murray (CSUSB History), Matt Patino (Crafton Hills College Adjunct Faculty), Michael German (Brennan Center for Justice). Click here to view previous panels in the Conversations on Race and Policing series (link).

March 11, 2024 - In Conversation with Dr. Samantha Simon (University of Arizona, Sociology)

Join us for a conversation with Dr. Samantha Simon (University of Arizona, link).
Find Dr. Simon's new book, Before the Badge: How Academy Training Shapes Police Violence, here at the publisher's website (link) and here at Amazon (link).
Find Dr. Simon's website here (link).
Recording Coming Soon
Thank you to the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, and the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee for sponsoring this event along with Pfau Library.
Series organizers: Dr. Mary Texeira (CSUSB Sociology), Robie Madrigal (Pfau Library), Stan Futch (President, Westside Action Group), Dr. Jeremy Murray (CSUSB History), Matt Patino (Crafton Hills College Adjunct Faculty), Michael German (Brennan Center for Justice). Click here to view previous panels in the Conversations on Race and Policing series (link).

March 18, 2024 - In Conversation with Dr. Tony Cheng (Duke, Sociology)

Join us for a conversation with Dr. Tony Cheng (Duke University, link).
Find Dr. Cheng's new book, The Policing Machine: Enforcement, Endorsements, and the Illusion of Public Input, here at the publisher's website (link) and here at Amazon (link).
Find Dr. Cheng's website here (link).
Thank you to the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, and the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee for sponsoring this event along with Pfau Library.
Series organizers: Dr. Mary Texeira (CSUSB Sociology), Robie Madrigal (Pfau Library), Stan Futch (President, Westside Action Group), Dr. Jeremy Murray (CSUSB History), Matt Patino (Crafton Hills College Adjunct Faculty), Michael German (Brennan Center for Justice). Click here to view previous panels in the Conversations on Race and Policing series (link).

March 24 2024 - In Conversation with Dr. Daniel Gascón and LG Freierman of of University of Massachusetts, Boston

A conversation with Dr. Daniel Gascón and LG Freierman University of Massachusetts, Boston. Daniel Gascón is an Associate Professor in the Sociology Department at the University of Massachusetts Boston, a Research Fellow at the Mauricio Gastón Institute for Latino Community Development and Public Policy. He is the founding director of the Racial Justice Laboratory. Daniel’s current research combines sociology, criminal justice, law, and history. His recent solo-authored work appears in the journals Critical Sociology and Social Justice, and he is the lead author of the March 2024 book, Police and State Crime in the Americas: Southern and Postcolonial Perspectives with Palgrave-Macmillan Publishing. LG Freierman (they/them) is an alum from the UMass Boston Sociology department and the Bunker Hill Community College Liberal Arts Department. They are currently a lab assistant at the Racial Justice Laboratory. Find Dr. Gascón's book, The Limits of Community Policing: Civilian Power and Police Accountability in Black and Brown Los Angeles (NYU, 2019, link), and find a recent article by Dr. Gascón, "The Hispanic Outreach: Network Analysis of a Community-Based Policing Program in South Los Angeles" here. Thank you to the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, and the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee for sponsoring this event along with Pfau Library. Series organizers: Dr. Mary Texeira (CSUSB Sociology), Robie Madrigal (Pfau Library), Stan Futch (President, Westside Action Group), Dr. Jeremy Murray (CSUSB History), Matt Patino (Crafton Hills College Adjunct Faculty), Michael German (Brennan Center for Justice).

Feb 12, 2024 - In Conversation with Professor Vida Johnson (Georgetown)

A conversation with Professor Vida Johnson (Georgetown Law, link).
Find Professor Johnson's recent article "White Supremacy from the Bench" in the Lewis & Clark Law Review here (link).
Zoom link: https://tinyurl.com/csusb-race-policing
Thank you to the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, and the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee for sponsoring this event along with Pfau Library.
Series organizers: Dr. Mary Texeira (CSUSB Sociology), Robie Madrigal (Pfau Library), Stan Futch (President, Westside Action Group), Dr. Jeremy Murray (CSUSB History), Matt Patino (Crafton Hills College Adjunct Faculty), Michael German (Brennan Center for Justice). Click here to view previous panels in the Conversations on Race and Policing series (link).

Sep 27, 2023 - In Conversation with Guesnerth Josué Perea (Executive Director of the Afrolatin@ Forum)

A conversation with Guesnerth Josué Perea (Executive Director of the Afrolatin@ Forum).
This event is made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Thank you also to the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences for sponsoring this event along with Pfau Library.
This event is presented in partnership with the CSUSB Anthropology Department.
Guesnerth Josué Perea is Executive Director of the afrolatin@ forum (link), Co-Curator of the AfoLatine Theology Project, Executive Producer of the documentary "Faith in Blackness: An Exploration of AfroLatine Spirituality", and Co-Host of the podcast "Majestad Prieta". His writings on AfroLatinidad have been part of various publications including Let Spirit Speak! Cultural Journeys through the African Diaspora, the Revista de Estudios Colombianos, and Engaging Religion, a digital journal by Indiana University. Josué was once named by the newspaper amNewYork as one of five Colombians "making a mark" in New York City.  https://centerforthehumanities.org/programming/participants/guesnerth-josu%C3%A9-perea
Series organizers: Dr. Mary Texeira (Sociology), Robie Madrigal (Pfau Library), Stan Futch (President, Westside Action Group), Dr. Jeremy Murray (History), Cecelia Smith (CSUSB, BA/MA Graduate), Matt Patino (CSUSB MA Candidate). Click here to view previous panels in the Conversations on Race and Policing series (link).

Oct 4, 2023 - In Conversation with Julia Yoo, civil rights attorney

A conversation with Julia Yoo (link), civil rights attorney at Iredale and Yoo (link), and author of this recent LA Times article: "Opinion: California might have thousands of cops who are unfit to wear a badge. This is why" (link).
Thank you to the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences for sponsoring this event along with Pfau Library.
Series organizers: Dr. Mary Texeira (Sociology), Robie Madrigal (Pfau Library), Stan Futch (President, Westside Action Group), Dr. Jeremy Murray (History), Cecelia Smith (CSUSB, BA/MA Graduate), Matt Patino (CSUSB MA Candidate). Click here to view previous panels in the Conversations on Race and Policing series (link).

Oct 18, 2023 - In Conversation with Dr. Marisol LeBrón (UC Santa Cruz)

a conversation with Dr. Marisol LeBrón (UC Santa Cruz).
Wednesday, October 18 2023 at 1:00 PM PDT
Recording is at this link
Thank you to the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences and the Committee on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for supporting this event along with Pfau Library. This webinar event is open to the public.
Marisol LeBrón is an interdisciplinary scholar whose research and teaching focus on race, social inequality, policing, violence, and protest. Prior to arriving at UCSC, she held appointments at the University of Texas at Austin, Dickinson College, and Duke University. She received her PhD in American Studies from New York University and her bachelor's degree in Comparative American Studies and Latin American Studies from Oberlin College.
She is the author of Policing Life and Death: Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico (University of California Press, 2019) and Against Muerto Rico: Lessons from the Verano Boricua (Editora Educación Emergente, 2021). Along with Yarimar Bonilla, she is the co-editor of Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm (Haymarket Books, 2019). She has published her research in a variety of venues including Signs, Society and Space, Modern American History, Radical History Review, Journal of Urban History, Souls, Women & Performance, and NACLA Report on the Americas.
She is currently at work on a new book project, Up Against the Wall: Policing and the Making of Latinxs, which is under contract with University of California Press’ American Studies Now series. Up Against the Wall aims to uncover the centrality of policing to the emergence and consolidation of Latinx identity in the United States. The book demonstrates that policing has played an essential, although chronically underexamined, role in shaping how we understand Latinxs and their place within American society. When and how diverse Latinx communities have come into contact with the United States’ law enforcement apparatus tell us a great deal about how Latinx groups are positioned within hierarchies of belonging related to race, citizenship, class, and spatial location in ways that continue to have deadly reverberations. In particular, Up Against the Wall traces how policing functions as a structuring component of everyday life for Latinxs that both facilitates and manages the effects of (settler) colonial dispossession, imperialist expansion, economic exploitation, and racial differentiation.
An active contributor to popular conversations about policing as well as Puerto Rico and its diaspora, she has published op-eds in The Washington Post, The Guardian and Truthout in addition to being interviewed by a number of news outlets. She is one of the co-creators and project leaders for the Puerto Rico Syllabus (#PRsyllabus), a digital resource for understanding the Puerto Rican debt crisis. She is also one of the editors for The Abusable Past, a digital project that features unique and original content related to the praxis of radical history in this social and political moment. She is currently the Vice President/President Elect of the Puerto Rican Studies Association and a member of the Executive Committee of the American Studies Association.
Series organizers: Dr. Mary Texeira (Sociology), Robie Madrigal (Pfau Library), Stan Futch (President, Westside Action Group), Dr. Jeremy Murray (History), Cecelia Smith (CSUSB, BA/MA Graduate), Matt Patino (CSUSB MA Candidate). Click here to view previous panels in the Conversations on Race and Policing series (link).

Oct 25, 2023 - In Conversation with Professor Dorothy Roberts (University of Pennsylvania)

A conversation with Professor Dorothy Roberts (University of Pennsylvania).
Thank you to the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences for sponsoring this event along with Pfau Library.
Find Professor Roberts's new book, Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World, here at the publisher's website (link) and here at Amazon (link).
Dorothy Roberts (link), is the George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights at the University of Pennsylvania. She is an acclaimed scholar of race, gender and the law, joined the University of Pennsylvania as its 14th Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor with joint appointments in the Departments of Africana Studies and Sociology and the Law School where she holds the inaugural Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander chair. She is also founding director of the Penn Program on Race, Science & Society in the Center for Africana Studies.
Her path breaking work in law and public policy focuses on urgent social justice issues in policing, family regulation, science, medicine, and bioethics. Her major books include Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century (New Press, 2011); Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare (Basic Books, 2002), and Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (Pantheon, 1997). She is the author of more than 100 scholarly articles and book chapters, as well as a co-editor of six books on such topics as constitutional law and women and the law.
Her work has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, National Science Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Harvard Program on Ethics & the Professions, and Stanford Center for the Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity. Recent recognitions of her scholarship and public service include 2019 Rutgers University- Newark Honorary Doctor of Laws degree, 2017 election to the National Academy of Medicine, 2016 Society of Family Planning Lifetime Achievement Award, 2016 Tanner Lectures on Human Values, 2015 American Psychiatric Association Solomon Carter Fuller Award.
Series organizers: Dr. Mary Texeira (Sociology), Robie Madrigal (Pfau Library), Stan Futch (President, Westside Action Group), Dr. Jeremy Murray (History), Cecelia Smith (CSUSB, BA/MA Graduate), Matt Patino (CSUSB MA Candidate). Click here to view previous panels in the Conversations on Race and Policing series (link).