Police-involved homicide of unarmed Black males: Observations by Black scholars in the midst of the April 2015 Baltimore uprising

Pratt-Harris, Natasha C.; Sinclair, Michael; Bragg, Cynthia Barbara; Williams, Nicole R.; Ture, Kalfani; Smith, Belinda Davis; Marshall, Isiah; Brown, Lawrence S.

doi:10.1080/10911359.2015.1132853

Cited by 18 publications

(9 citation statements)

References 13 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…At the writing of this piece, the video had more than 1,570,000 views. Pratt-Harris, Sinclair, and Bragg (2016) notes, “The media is perhaps one of the most powerful tools of influence in America” (p. 380), and representations in mainstream media often reflect dominant views. Insights from BOP (as a companion and/or extension of CRT) offer a counternarrative reading of this racialized incident.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Jim Crow State of Mind: The Racialization of Space in the McKinney, Texas Pool Party Incident

Combs

2019

American Behavioral Scientist

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Violence against Black bodies is not new, but contemporary discussions of these matters often focus on police or other state-sanctioned violence against male Black bodies. While this is important, it ignores the perils all Black bodies face as they navigate White spaces. In this article, I utilize an analytical framework, which highlights intersectional bodies in order to expose the extent to which a Jim Crow-like mentality about where people belong still persists in U.S. society. I examine the 2015 McKinney, Texas, pool party incident as a case study to demonstrate how gender and the social status of children operated to imperil Black (and Brown) bodies in the social environment of a predominantly White upper middle-class suburban neighborhood. I offer a counternarrative reading of the incident utilizing a framework I term bodies out of place, a critical extension on critical race theory scholarship and the work of Nirmal Puwar (2004). The article makes an important contribution toward understanding White epistemologies of ignorance with respect to the existence and maintenance of continuing racial oppression and White supremacy in society.

show abstract

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Jim Crow State of Mind: The Racialization of Space in the McKinney, Texas Pool Party Incident

Combs

2019

American Behavioral Scientist

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…We acknowledge that police violence and racial trauma in the Black community is not a new phenomenon per se . Rather, it is the accessibility and viral spreading of these videos that increases the novel experience of Blacks’ addressing racially traumatic events in the workplace (Pratt-Harris et al , 2016; Harris, 2015). Developing post-traumatic stress symptoms or feeling pressure to discuss racially traumatic events with coworkers may disrupt the work flow due to Black employees’ depleted physiological and psychological resources, especially when Blacks are underrepresented (Purdie-Vaughns et al , 2008) or their work-related goals are contingent on their relationship with potentially non-Black coworkers (Swann et al , 2004).…”

Section: Defining Racial Trauma Through Estmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, scholars of color, perhaps in efforts to affirm their own humanity, recently published papers that call for their disciplines and academic institutions to address and work toward reducing events of racial trauma (e.g. Pratt-Harris et al , 2016; Ruggs et al , 2016; Hall et al , 2016). It may be beneficial to our own well-being if we find that our work in some way reinforces the value and worth of our identities.…”

Section: Implications and Future Research Directionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Calling in Black: a dynamic model of racially traumatic events, resourcing, and safety

McCluney

Bryant

King

et al. 2017

EDI

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Purpose Racially traumatic events – such as police violence and brutality toward Blacks – affect individuals in and outside of work. Black employees may “call in Black” to avoid interacting with coworkers in organizations that lack resources and perceived identity and psychological safety. The paper aims to discuss this issue. Design/methodology/approach The paper integrates event system theory (EST), resourcing, and psychological safety frameworks to understand how external, racially traumatic events impact Black employees and organizations. As racially traumatic events are linked to experienced racial identity threat, the authors discuss the importance of both the availability and creation of resources to help employees to maintain effective workplace functioning, despite such difficult circumstances. Findings Organizational and social-identity resourcing may cultivate social, material, and cognitive resources for black employees to cope with threats to their racial identity after racially traumatic events occur. The integration of organizational and social-identity resourcing may foster identity and psychologically safe workplaces where black employees may feel valued and reduce feelings of racial identity threats. Research limitations/implications Implications for both employees’ social-identity resourcing practice and organizational resource readiness and response options are discussed. Originality/value The authors present a novel perspective for managing diversity and inclusion through EST. Further, the authors identify the interaction of individual agency and organizational resources to support Black employees.

show abstract

“…Historical and contemporary race relations in Baltimore are part of a complicated narrative that includes community-police interactions (Archibald, Daniels, & Sinclair, 2017;Childress, 2016;Jones-Eversley & Ravenell, 2018;McDougall, 1993). The 2015 death of Freddie Gray, an unarmed 27-year-old Black man taken into custody by the City of Baltimore Police Department, served as one tipping point of community resistance to perceived unequal treatment (Childress, 2016;Jones-Eversley & Ravenell, 2018;Pratt-Harris et al, 2016;Williams, 2015). The subsequent cries of "police brutality" (www.noboundariescoalition.com, 2016) led to an investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Civil Rights Division (2016), which confirmed the strained relationship between the Baltimore Police Department and the citizens of the City of Baltimore's African American communities.…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Of Common Bonds: Accounting for Intergenerational Culture Competency in Community Policing

et al. 2018

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Community policing is grounded in a set of knowledge and skills that promotes a collaborative relationship between community residents, law enforcement, public and private industry, and governing elected officials to achieve safe and sustainable communities. In the fall of 2016, on the heels of the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division's Investigative Report, a cohort of Morgan State University's School of Social Work faculty, trained in the results-based accountability (RBA) model, developed and implemented an interactive workshop on cultural competency with 70 community partners from law enforcement. Cultural competence is an inherit cornerstone of a viable community and police partnership. This article shares how outcome-based performance strategies such as RBA can facilitate a pathway for enhancing community generational cultural competence leading to public safety.

show abstract

Police-involved homicide of unarmed Black males: Observations by Black scholars in the midst of the April 2015 Baltimore uprising

Cited by 18 publications

References 13 publications

A Jim Crow State of Mind: The Racialization of Space in the McKinney, Texas Pool Party Incident

A Jim Crow State of Mind: The Racialization of Space in the McKinney, Texas Pool Party Incident

Calling in Black: a dynamic model of racially traumatic events, resourcing, and safety

Of Common Bonds: Accounting for Intergenerational Culture Competency in Community Policing

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About