{"id":100556,"date":"2025-02-21T13:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T13:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/?p=100556"},"modified":"2025-02-21T13:54:10","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T13:54:10","slug":"historian-shannon-king-to-explore-the-politics-of-safety-the-black-freedom-struggle-on-feb-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2025\/02\/historian-shannon-king-to-explore-the-politics-of-safety-the-black-freedom-struggle-on-feb-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Historian Shannon King to explore \u2018The Politics of Safety: The Black Freedom Struggle\u2019 on Feb. 27"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 Feb. 21, 2025 \u2013 The 溏心vlog免费B站 Center for the Humanities will host historian Shannon King on <strong>Thursday, Feb. 27<\/strong>, as part of the center\u2019s year-long series \u201cSustaining Democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>King, associate professor of history at Fairfield University, will discuss \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/the-politics-of-safety-the-black-freedom-struggle\/\">The Politics of Safety: The Black Freedom Struggle<\/a>,\u201d at 5 p.m. in the Carothers Library\u2019s Galanti Lounge on the Kingston Campus. The free event is open to the public and will also be available online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Author of \u201cThe Politics of Safety: The Black Struggle for Police Accountability in La Guardia\u2019s New York,\u201d King will explore Black resistance to racial violence outside of the South from the Great Depression to the 1990s and offer alternative ways to understand and teach African American history and Black social movements in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDr. King will present a historical take on race and policing, an issue of great relevance in contemporary society, particularly in the wake of George Floyd\u2019s murder in 2020,\u201d said Evelyn Sterne, director of the 溏心vlog免费B站 Center for the Humanities. \u201cWe&#8217;re really pleased to welcome him to 溏心vlog免费B站 to be part of this important conversation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHis talk will be an important part of Black History Month programming at 溏心vlog免费B站 and will bring a unique perspective to the center\u2019s year-long series,\u201d she added. \u201cThe event should be of broad interest to students, faculty and staff in departments including history, Africana studies, sociology, criminology and criminal justice.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his 2024 book, King explores the relationship between race, crime, and policing in New York City in the 1930s and \u201940s, looking at the role race played in shaping New Yorkers\u2019 perception of the dangers of urban life. While white residents and city officials saw many Blacks as potential criminals, Black residents feared local police who failed to adequately serve Black neighborhoods and committed acts of brutality on residents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDr. King&#8217;s research challenges narratives about Black Americans as criminals and rioters by demonstrating how Black activists outside the South campaigned for safety and against police brutality and crime,\u201d Sterne said. \u201cHe demonstrates how activism against harm was at the center of the Black freedom struggle.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>King is also the author of the widely acclaimed 2015 book \u201cWhose Harlem Is This, Anyway?\u201d His work has appeared in the Journal of African American History, Journal of Urban History, and Reviews in American History. His essays have appeared in \u201cUnderstanding and Teaching the Civil Rights Movement,\u201d \u201cThe Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North\u201d and \u201cEscape from New York!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Along with the Center for the Humanities, the series is co-sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences, Department of English, Department of Gender and Women\u2019s Studies, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Division of Research and Economic Development, 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Honors Program, Multicultural Student Services Center, and Office of the President.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 Feb. 21, 2025 \u2013 The 溏心vlog免费B站 Center for the Humanities will host historian Shannon King on Thursday, Feb. 27, as part of the center\u2019s year-long series \u201cSustaining Democracy.\u201d King, associate professor of history at Fairfield University, will discuss \u201cThe Politics of Safety: The Black Freedom Struggle,\u201d at 5 p.m. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":100559,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100556"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100558,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100556\/revisions\/100558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}