The Public Health Hustle (Part 2) - Violence Prevention and the Non-Profit Industrial Complex
In Search of Black Power
English - June 15, 2021 21:00 - 1 hour - 64.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsGovernment Business Non-Profit black studies policy making black power criminal justice black academia economic development baltimore city maryland politics Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
For over 10 years, the academic and public health sectors have promoted "violence prevention" non-profits as the "evidence-based" alternative to mass incarceration and a solution to the shootings plaguing American cities. With the Biden administration set to invest 4 billion dollars in "violence prevention", some fear these services represent a co-option of grassroots anti-violence work and an attempt to cash in the public's anxieties around street crime, using the #DefundThePolice movement to strengthen the nonprofit industrial complex.
In this talk, LBS Director of Research Lawrence Grandpre will use violence prevention as an example of the need for emancipatory, African Centered research. He'll be diving into the literature to display the limitations in Eurocentric public health methodologies of violence prevention and the need for African-centered alternatives.
In Search of Black Power is a Black-owned internet show and podcast. This podcast is sponsored and produced by Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle (LBS).
The internet show is published in collaboration with Black Power Media (BPM).