University Place

Policing Blackness after the Second World War

Special | 46m 38s  | Video has closed captioning.

Simon Balto, Graduate Student, Department of History, UW-Madison, examines the relationships between race and the police responses as black people migrated to urban centers in the mid-twentieth century. Balto focuses on perceptions of danger and safety, how urban spaces were constructed in racial ways and how the criminal justice system has responded.

Aired: 03/05/15

Rating: TV-PG

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