A Conversation with Dr. Ibrahim Turay on the Interaction of Black Youths with Police

Dr. Ibrahim Turay discusses his PhD research on the interactions and experiences of Black youth with Southern Alberta police. Dr. Turay is a faculty member and Chair of Distance Learning in the School of Justice Studies at Lethbridge Polytechnic. He holds a Ph.D. in Cultural, Social, and Political thought from the University of Lethbridge, Alberta. His academic specialty is counter-storytelling as a critical race theory methodology, and his professional interests include Black youth-police interactions, racialization, racial profiling, youth gangs, and corrections. (ep. 090)
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