Sociology Program Presents

Black Lives and Policing: The Larger Context of Ghettoization
 

Recent highly publicized police violence has been widely described as "misbehavior."  This presentation will argue that issues of policing need to be tackled within a wider context of the spatial containment of disadvantaged and minority communities that reinforces the privilege of others, in other words, ghettoization.  The  issue was identified by the famous National Commission on Civil Disorders in the 1960s: America's division into two societies, separate and unequal.  The responses proposed by that Commission fifty years ago -- community policing, civilian review boards, better training and more sensitivity -- were not implemented then, and they would have little impact now.
 
After the talk and an intermission for refreshments, Professor Logan will offer an introduction to the user-friendly website on which the talk was based and which could also be used for student and faculty research papers and projects
 
Data Resources on Urban Inequality: The American Communities Project

This presentation will introduce a series of data resources that are readily available through Brown University's American Communities Project.  Some of these cover recent decades: measures of neighborhood-level racial/ethnic and income segregation, school segregation and disparities in school quality.  The Longitudinal Tract Database (LTDB) provides census data for 1970-2010 estimated within 2010 tract boundaries, facilitating studies of neighborhood change and neighborhood effects.  Other data sets in the Urban Transition HGIS provide mapped data for the period 1880-1940.  
See https://www.brown.edu/academics/spatial-structures-in-social-sciences/american-communities-project 
 
John Logan is professor of Sociology at Brown University and Director of its Research Initiative on Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences (S4).   He is the author or editor of numerous books and many scores of articles, including recently (co-authored), “Emergent Ghettos: Black Neighborhoods in New York and Chicago, 1880-1940” American Journal of Sociology, 2015.

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For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].

Time: 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4

Location: Olin Humanities, Room 102

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