The Baltimore Police Department is found to have violated the civil rights of poor blacks. A historian explains why those findings are eerily similar to how the city treated blacks in the 1800s.
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Do academics need to change the way they teach race? What is the impact of students having been socialized to believe that “race doesn’t matter”?
Racial inequality in America has its parallel in caste inequality in India. What can the world’s two largest democracies learn from each other?
Recent cases of tweets by a Boston University professor about racism and others have raised questions about what might be the limits to academic freedom.
Black students get suspended or expelled at a rate three times greater than white students. The cost: they fall behind in school, and the cycle of poverty and failure is perpetuated.
The current climate is inviting us to conceive of Baltimore not as a place where the law doesn’t work but, more radically, as an example of Italian legal philosopher Giorgio Agamben’s “state of exception”.
America is a country with pockets of poverty with neighborhoods filled with unskilled workers with limited opportunities.
Predatory lending and the subprime mortgage crises as well as a history of economic injustice fueled the Baltimore protests.
Freddie Gray had high levels of lead as a child, one of the environmental injustices suffered by poor and minority groups.
Provocative, violent and discriminatory policing has sparked riots in both the UK and America.
The news media are a major presence in the Baltimore riots. Are they providing an accurate picture of what’s going on?
Racial segregation and poisonous living conditions played a large part in determining the young man’s fate.
A panel of scholars comments on the origins and the implications of the violence in Baltimore.
Better handling of peaceful protests at the death of Freddie Gray might have prevented the riots.
Despite having a black police commissioner and mayor, Baltimore has become the latest focus of African-American anger at racist policing.
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John Rennie Short is a Friend of The Conversation.Professor Emeritus of Public Policy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Professor of Sociology, Lancaster University
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Professor of Management and Sociology, Vanderbilt University
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Lecturer in English, Yale University
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Researcher in Crowd Behaviour, University of Brighton
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Assistant Professor of African-American Studies and Political Science, Yale University
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Associate Professor of Communications, Penn State
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Director and Associate Professor of Language, Literacy and Culture Ph.D. Program and Affiliate Associate Professor in the Department of Africana Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, Georgia Southern University
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Associate Professor of History, University of California, Irvine
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Reader in American history, University of Warwick
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Lecturer in American Studies, Sustainability, and EcoJustice, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Associate professor of history and Afroamerican and African Studies; Affiliated Faculty of Law, University of Michigan
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, Birmingham-Southern College
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Assistant professor, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
