Author Event: Menika Dirkson's Hope and Struggle in the Policed City

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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