Author Event: Menika Dirkson's Hope and Struggle in the Policed City
Tue, February 4, 2025 5:00 P.M.
Chestnut Hill Library
Chestnut Hill Library
Cost: FREE
Hope and Struggle in the Policed City: Black Criminalization and Resistance in Philadelphia explores how concerns about poverty-induced Black crime cultivated by police, journalists, and city officials sparked a rise in tough-on-crime policing in Philadelphia. Dirkson's book reveals how a city government's budgetary strategy can function as racial capitalism relies on criminal scapegoating.
From 5:00 to 6:30 p.m.
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Chestnut Hill Library
8711 Germantown Avenue (Germantown Ave. & Bethlehem Pike)
Philadelphia, PA 19118-2716
215- 685-9290