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DESCRIPTION:Making a Killing: Capitalism, Cops, and the War on Black Life with Robin DG 
 Kelley\n\nMy talk summarizes my forthcoming book, which reveals the hidden 
 relationship between policing and gendered racial capitalism, and 
 collective organized resistance. Taking as my starting point Ruth Wilson 
 Gilmore’s oft-quoted definition of racism as “the state-sanctioned 
 and/or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated 
 vulnerability to premature death,” I reconstruct the lives and 
 life-worlds of selected victims of state violence in order to uncover the 
 policies and processes that rendered them vulnerable to premature death in 
 the first place. These outcomes are the source of chaos and disorder, and 
 the role of the police is ostensibly to retore and maintain order. But the 
 only order police maintain is the social order of class rule—of gendered 
 racial capitalism. The police don’t just take lives; they make life and 
 living less viable for the communities they occupy. Making a Killing 
 demonstrates how police, in tandem with other state and corporate entities, 
 are engines of capital accumulation, government revenue, gentrification, 
 the municipal bond market, the tech and private security industry—in a 
 phrase, the profits of death.  \n\n\nRobin D. G. Kelley is Distinguished 
 Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA.  Member 
 of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is the recipient of many 
 awards and fellowships, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and Freedom 
 Scholar Award.  His books include the award-winning, Thelonious Monk: The 
 Life and Times of an American Original; Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists 
 During the Great Depression; Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination; 
  Race Rebels: Culture Politics and the Black Working Class; Yo’ Mama’s 
 DisFunktional!: Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America (Beacon Press 
 1997); Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary 
 Times.\n\nHis essays have appeared in dozens of publications, including The 
 Nation, New York Times, American Historical Review, American Quarterly, 
 African Studies Review, Social Text, Metropolis, Journal of American 
 History, New Labor Forum, and The Boston Review, for which he also serves 
 as Contributing Editor.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/04/23/18865283.php
SUMMARY:Making a Killing: Capitalism, Cops, & the War on Black Life
LOCATION:Humanities 1, Rm 210, UC Santa Cruz\n\nRegister to attend virtually: 
 https://ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMqcO-rpjgtG9SPdQDZn5VH73hZ7Y8EfN2Z
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/04/23/18865283.php
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