Policing Blackness after the Second World War
Special | 46m 38sVideo has Closed Captions
Simon Balto focuses on race, migration to urban spaces and police responses since WWII.
Simon Balto, Graduate Student, Department of History, UW-Madison, examines the relationships between race and the police responses as black people migrated to urban centers in the mid-twentieth century. Balto focuses on perceptions of danger and safety, how urban spaces were constructed in racial ways and how the criminal justice system has responded.
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University Place is a local public television program presented by PBS Wisconsin
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Policing Blackness after the Second World War
Special | 46m 38sVideo has Closed Captions
Simon Balto, Graduate Student, Department of History, UW-Madison, examines the relationships between race and the police responses as black people migrated to urban centers in the mid-twentieth century. Balto focuses on perceptions of danger and safety, how urban spaces were constructed in racial ways and how the criminal justice system has responded.
Problems playing video? | Closed Captioning Feedback
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