Book Talk | Stuart Schrader | Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge and NYU’s History Department on Wednesday, September 9 (5:30-7:00 PM) for an event with Stuart Schrader. He will discuss his book, Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves, with Andrew Ross and Jeanne Theoharis.

Stuart Schrader is an associate professor of history at Johns Hopkins University, where he directs the Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism. He is also the author of Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing. He lives in Brooklyn.

Andrew Ross is a social activist and Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU, where he also directs the Prison Research Lab. A contributor to the Guardian, the New York Times, The Nation, and Al Jazeera, he is the author or editor of more than twenty-five books, including, most recently, The Weather Report: A Journey Through Unsettled Climates.

Jeanne Theoharis is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and History at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center and the author or co-author of thirteen books and numerous articles on the civil rights and Black Power movements and the contemporary politics of race in the United States. Her new book King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South received starred reviews from both Kirkus and Publishers Weekly. Her New York Times-bestselling biography The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks won a 2014 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work Biography/Autobiography and the Letitia Woods Brown Award from the Association of Black Women Historians. It has been adapted into a documentary of the same name for NBC-Peacock, where she served as a consulting producer. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Nation, TIME Magazine, the Atlantic, Boston Review, and others.