Columbia University
november, 2020
Event Details
Book Talk with Simon Balto (University of Iowa) "Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to
Event Details
Book Talk with Simon Balto (University of Iowa)
“Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power”
Part of the Lehman Center for American History’s “Policing America” series
12:00-1:15 PM EST, Zoom
In this history of Chicago from 1919 to the rise and fall of Black Power in the 1960s and 1970s, Simon Balto narrates the evolution of racially repressive policing in black neighborhoods as well as how black citizen-activists challenged that repression. Balto demonstrates that punitive practices by and inadequate protection from the police were central to black Chicagoans’ lives long before the late-century “wars” on crime and drugs. By exploring the deeper origins of this toxic system, Balto reveals how modern mass incarceration, built upon racialized police practices, emerged as a fully formed machine of profoundly antiblack subjugation.
Time
(Thursday) 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm