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Dr. Danielle Beaujon Book Announcement

Criminalizing the Cashahs, a new book by Dr. Danielle Beaujon, explores how French police officers in Marseille and Algiers associated the spaces they saw as North African—the “Casbahs”—with a particular form of criminality,…

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Dr. Rahim Kurwa Book Announcement

Indefensible Spaces examines the policing of housing through the story of Black community building in the Antelope Valley, Los Angeles County’s northernmost outpost. Tracing its evolution from a segregated postwar suburb to a…

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Dr. Rahim Kurwa Book Announcement

Indefensible Spaces examines the policing of housing through the story of Black community building in the Antelope Valley, Los Angeles County’s northernmost outpost. Tracing its evolution from a segregated postwar suburb to a…

Image of the title of the book

Dr. Danielle Beaujon Book Announcement

Criminalizing the Cashahs, a new book by Dr. Danielle Beaujon, explores how French police officers in Marseille and Algiers associated the spaces they saw as North African—the “Casbahs”—with a particular form of criminality,…

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Policing Space: From Marseille and Algiers to the Antelope Valley

Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2025 Time: 3:00pm – 4:000pm, Where: UIC Daley Library, 1st floor, room 1-470   Dr. Danielle Beaujon, “Criminalizing the Casbahs: Policing North Africans in Marseille and Algiers, 1918-154” Dr. Rahim Kurwa,…

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John West Grace Holt Memorial Award Winner

John West, a PhD student in Criminology, Law, and Justice, was honored with the Grace Holt Memorial Honorable Mention Award from Black Studies in recognition of his work on healing Black communities and…

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Jenna Pasanen Grace Holt Memorial Award Winner

Jenna Pasanen, a PhD student in Criminology, Law, and Justice, was honored with the Grace Holt Memorial Award from Black Studies in recognition of her work advancing racial justice and improving the lives…

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CLJ Student Society Hosts First General Board Meeting

Check out the highlights from last week’s general board meeting! We had an amazing turnout with around 35 attendees. The enthusiasm and involvement from everyone made the meeting a great success. We’re thrilled…

CLJ Faculty at Chicago for Socialism Conference

Dr. Beth E. Richie, presented on two talk tracks: Abolition. Feminism. Now., and Teaching Toward Freedom from Behind the Bars: Last weekend, she joined leading scholar-activists reflecting on the often unrecognized genealogies of queer, anti-capitalist, internationalist,…