Sociology (with an interdisciplinary emphasis in Black Studies)
Dr. Victor Rios and Dr. George Lipsitz
<p><em>My dissertation investigates the impact of the global circulation of racialized discourses about crime and the policing practices they justify on the everyday experiences of African diasporic communities in two cities across two national contexts: Stockholm, Sweden, and New York, U.S.A. Using a qualitative mixed-methods approach consisting of multi-sited ethnography and critical discourse analysis, I examine three related questions: 1) how criminalization influences the racialization of people of African descent within and across national contexts, and how racialized discourses intersect with those of religion, ethnicity, and immigration, 2) how racialized policing manifests in the daily lives of racialized immigrant communities within and across these cities, and 3) how African diasporic communities organize to resist racialized policing.</em></p>