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A Center for Black Studies at Rochester
Black Health, Black Culture, Black Politics
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Our interdisciplinary program in Black studies integrates the social sciences and humanities.
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Professor's social justice grant to support policing alternative
Philip V. McHarris, Assistant Professor of Black Studies, was awarded a $75,000 grant by the Scholar for Social Justice’s Freedom and Justice Institute Research Collaborative Program. Alongside Alex S. Vitale (Brooklyn College) and Dr. Stuart Schrader (Johns Hopkins University), their proposed project "Red Cities, White Coats, and Blue Power: Toward A New Practice of Urban Community Safety" aims to investigate emergent alternatives to police for achieving public safety, asking how they light a pathway toward broader social
“I'm honored to receive this support alongside my collaborators. Communities across the country are already building forms of safety rooted in care, health, and investment rather than punishment,” Phillips says. “This grant gives us the chance to learn from that work and better understand what it takes to build lasting infrastructures of safety.”
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