"Policing the Racial Lines”: Examining Police Engagement at Traditionally White Higher Education Institutions

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Abstract

Police have been a pervasive and longstanding societal structure with a robust history particularly in the United States. Reliance on community complicity seems to be a throughline and feature of both policing as well as higher education, ensuring these systems are reified over time and contemporarily. Utilizing a framework of plantation politics, whiteness as property, and racialized organizations with a proposed Critical Institutional Ethnography methodology, this paper examines how institutions utilize campus police to protect white interests. The research question guiding this dissertation is: 1) How, if at all, do the cultural schemas of the institutional culture impact the engagement of campus police to protect white interests on college campuses?

Author

• Kelly Schlabach, University of Connecticut