Police shootings of unarmed black people this past year have raised the topic of violence and policing to a national level. But other communities, like indigenous and trans peoples and those with disabilities, also suffer from high rates of police violence.
“Freedom Interrupted: Race, Gender, Nation and Policing,” a campus-wide, yearlong collaboration comprising symbolic, artistic and scholarly events, will foster ongoing discussions of race and policing, and raise awareness about victims of police violence who have not received much national attention.
The interdisciplinary effort includes the Africana Studies and Research Center and the American Studies, Asian American Studies, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Latina/o Studies (LSP) and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies programs in the College of Arts and Sciences, as well as the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program (AIIP) in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. As the organizers note, this is the first time all these studies programs have collaborated on a series like this; they hope it will be a model for the future. In addition, the Yang-Tan Institute on Employment and Disability in the ILR School and faculty participating in the Crime, Prisons, Education and Justice minor are partners. Full story.
This article originally appeared in the Cornell Chronicle.
