Roundtable: Critical Teaching: Teaching Critically About Race and Policing

Session Submission Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

This roundtable provides a forum for discussion of effective ways to teach about the complicated intersections of race, racism and policing in America. Presenters share assignments and classroom activities which have helped foster a deeper, and critical, understanding of these issues for students.

Sub Unit

• Area XIII: Roundtable Sessions

Individual Presentations

• Finger on the Trigger: Police Violence and Trigger Warnings - Bethany Callan Nelson, University of Tennessee

• A Critical Approach to Understanding Police Legitimacy Issues in Communities of Color - Brenda K. Vollman, CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College

• Investigating Ferguson and the Criminological Imagination - Carl Root, Eastern Kentucky University

Chair

• Carla Barrett, John Jay College of Criminal Justice