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SUMMARY:Dying From Improvement: Inquests and Inquiries into Indigenous Deaths in Custody
DESCRIPTION:A book talk by Sherene Razack\, Professor of Social Justice Education\, University of Toronto \nWhat do inquests and inquiries reveal about how and why Indigenous people die in custody? What is said about a sixty-seven-year -old man who dies in a hospital in police custody with a large\, visible\, purple boot print on his chest\, a mark no one in the hospital or among the police notice? How do we account for the police dropping off a barely conscious\, alcoholic older man\, Frank Paul (Mi’kmaq)\, in a dark alley on a cold Vancouver night\, a man who could be seen on a video recording being dragged into the police station\, presumably unable to walk on his own? What sense are we to make of the patterns of these deaths – patterns involving a repeated failure to care\, a systemic indifference and callousness\, and sometimes\, outright murder? I advance the argument that the violence state actors visit on Indigenous bodies imprints colonial power on the skin\, as much as the branding of slaves or the whipping and abuse of children in residential schools once did. Such a branding declares Indigenous bodies\, and crucially their lands\, to be settler property\, and simultaneously announces that Indigenous people are subhuman\, the kind of human one can only deal with through force. Importantly\, the power imprinted on bodies need not take the form of a boot print. The failure to provide care\, indeed to care\, marks the body as a lower form of humanity\, one that is already in between life and death. Legal processes such as inquests and inquiries endorse the racial hierarchy that a boot print produces through routinely declaring such actions as lawful\, necessary\, or inevitable. Through a legal performance of Indigenous people as a dying race who are simply pathologically unable to cope with the demands of modern life\, the settler subject is formed and his or her entitlement to the land secured. The settler and the settler state are both constituted as modern and as exemplary in their efforts to assist Indigenous people’s entry into modernity. In this way\, a killing becomes saving\, and murder brings redemption.\nOrganized by: Critical Race Studies\, UCLA School of Law \nCosponsored by: the UCLA Department of Gender Studies\, the UCLA American Indian Studies Center\, and the UCLA Center for the Study of Women’s Research and Equity Committee initiative (supported by the Office of Interdisciplinary and Cross Campus Affairs) \nSherene Razack is a Professor at the University of Toronto. \nCOPIES OF DYING FROM IMPROVEMENT WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE AT THE EVENT. \nRead blog post about Sherene Razack
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LOCATION:Law School Room 1314
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