This talk draws on Philip V. McHarris’s book Beyond Policing to examine the failures of policing as a framework for safety and the ways Black communities have long enacted practices of care, protection, and refusal beyond the state.

Dr. Philip V. McHarris is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Black Studies and Frederick Douglass Institute at the University of Rochester. McHarris was a presidential postdoctoral research fellow at Princeton University in the Department of African American Studies and the Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab. He earned his PhD in sociology and African American studies at Yale University.

McHarris’s book, Beyond Policing (Legacy Lit | Hachette, July 2024), traces the historical arc of policing and presents transformative visions for safety and justice.

Sponsored by the Department of Sociology and the Department of Africana Studies.

This event is open to the public.