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SUMMARY: The Inaugural Racial (In)Justice Lecture: Laurence Ralph
DESCRIPTION: Laurence Ralph presents the Inaugural Racial (In)Justice Lectu
 re at a co-sponsored event by the UBC Department of Anthropology and Sociol
 ogy. Ralph will present his recently published book\, The Torture Letters\,
   which focuses on what it means to be policed in America today\, moving fr
 om his own experiences with racial profiling as a teenager to the horrific 
 history of police torture in Chicago. 
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: <h3>The Torture Letters: The Scars of Being P
 oliced While Black</h3><h3>[image_spread img_url="https://soci.cms.arts.ubc
 .ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/10/Laurence_Ralph_poster.jpg" caption="
 " width="website"]</h3><h4>Laurence Ralph presents the Inaugural Racial (In
 )Justice Annual Lecture at an event co-sponsored by the UBC Departments of 
 Anthropology and Sociology.</h4><p>[image_aligned img_url="https://soci.cms
 .arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/10/laurence_ralph.png" caption
 ="Laurence Ralph" align="right"]</p><p>This talk introduces Ralph’s recentl
 y published book\, <em>The Torture Letters\,</em>  which focuses on what it
  means to be policed in the United States today. It moves from Ralph’s own 
 experiences with racial profiling as a teenager to the horrific history of 
 police torture in Chicago. Born out of more than a decade of research\, the
  book serves as an instant primer on the roots of police violence. It is pr
 emised on the nagging realization that right now\, somewhere in the United 
 States\, similar episodes of police violence are playing out in real-time. 
 Without question\, police violence is driven by a dichotomy between “good” 
 versus “bad” people. And too often\, the police inflict violence on the lat
 ter—those presumed to be guilty and thus unworthy of love or care. Ralph ho
 pes this book can be part of a larger movement that helps forge an alliance
  to unite people around human dignity.</p><p>Laurence Ralph is a Professor 
 of Anthropology at Princeton University. His research explores how police a
 buse\, mass incarceration\, and the drug trade make disease\, disability\, 
 and premature death seem natural for urban residents of colour\, who are of
 ten seen as disposable.</p><p>[buttons][button link_text="Learn more about 
 his research here" link_url="https://anthropology.princeton.edu/people/facu
 lty/laurence-ralph"][/buttons]</p><p>[buttons][button link_text="Watch a vi
 deo about Prof. Ralph's work" link_url="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/30/
 opinion/the-torture-letters-police-violence.html"][/buttons]</p><h3>[gravit
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