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Spotlight! Symposium: Dr. Michael Casiano

Policing Jim Crow Baltimore: Archival Insights

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Online

Date & Time

November 9, 2022, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

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This event is hosted by the Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery. The original event post is here.

Policing Jim Crow Baltimore: Archival Insights

Michael Casiano, Assistant Professor, Department of American Studies

In this talk, Dr. Mike Casiano will provide an overview of how policing shaped urban governance in Baltimore during the post-Civil War Era. Specifically, he will focus on the institutions that emerged, including the City Jail, various police bureaus, and reform groups, to discuss how nineteenth century investments in reframing local governance resulted in the bureaucratized structures of the twentieth century that continue to define city functions. He will also foreground the various archival sources he has used to narrate this history from the perspective of everyday people's lived experiences.

Co-sponsored by the Department of American Studies; the Department of Gender, Women's, + Sexuality Studies; Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health; School of Social Work; Department of Psychology; Department of Political Science; Language, Literacy, and Culture Program; Department of Media and Communication Studies; the Dresher Center for the Humanities; the Center for Social Science Scholarship; and the Graduate School.

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