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Laurence Ralph

Anthropology

#652

World Rank

#898

Historical Rank

#344

USA Rank

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Laurence Ralph's Degrees

PhD Anthropology University of Chicago
Masters Anthropology University of Chicago
Bachelors Anthropology University of Chicago

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According to Wikipedia, Laurence Ralph is an American writer, filmmaker and researcher. He is a Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University and the Director of Center on Transnational Policing. Ralph's research interests include urban ethnography, disability studies, social inequality, African American studies, race, policing, theories of violence, popular culture and hip-hop. He authored the books Renegade Dreams: Living Through Injury in Gangland in 2014 and The Torture Letters: Reckoning with Police Violence in 2020. He is also writer and director of the animated short film, The Torture Letters.

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Laurence Ralph's Published Works

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Published Works

Renegade Dreams: Living through Injury in Gangland Chicago (2014) (128)
The qualia of pain: How police torture shapes historical consciousness (2013) (25)
The Torture Letters (2020) (24)
The Attitudes and Behavior of Young Black Americans (2008) (15)
What Wounds Enable: The Politics of Disability and Violence in Chicago (2012) (12)
Legacies of Fear: from Rodney King’s beating to Trayvon Martin’s death (2014) (7)
THE LIMITATIONS OF A “DIRTY” WORLD (2015) (6)
The logic of the slave patrol: the fantasy of black predatory violence and the use of force by the police (2019) (6)
Torture without Torturers (2020) (4)
Black and Blue (2015) (4)
Becoming Aggrieved: An Alternative Framework of Care in Black Chicago (2015) (3)
The Making of Richard Zuley: The Ignored Linkages between the US Criminal In/Justice System and the International Security State (2020) (3)
Fidel Castro and Harlem: Political, Diplomatic, and Social Influences of the 1960 Visit to the Hotel Theresa (2000) (2)
From Slavery to Freedom: John Edward Bruce's Childhood and Adolescence (2002) (2)
“As Soon as I Get Out Ima Cop Dem Jordans”: The Afterlife of the Corporate Gang (2010) (1)
“Love, Peace, and Soul”: a tribute to Don Cornelius (2012) (1)
What Wounds Enable (2017) (1)
Prayers for the People: Homicide and Humanity in the Crescent City by Rebecca LouiseCarter Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. 272 pp. (2021) (0)
To the Readers of Current Anthropology (2021) (0)
Pedagogy of the flesh (2016) (0)
ELEVEN. Alibi: The Extralegal Force Embedded in the Law (United States) (2019) (0)
Black cargo (2020) (0)
Announcement (1977) (0)
Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and John Edward Bruce: The Relationship of a Militant Black Journalist with the "Father of Civil Rights," and the "Wizard of Tuskegee." (1998) (0)
Genres of Justice: A Conversation with Laurence Ralph (2021) (0)
The Black Box of police torture (2018) (0)
O19Experiences of racial/ethnic discrimination and contraceptive use: A longitudinal study (2022) (0)
Current Anthropology Visual Anthropology Competition (2021) (0)
The logic of the slave patrol: the fantasy of black predatory violence and the use of force by the police (2019) (0)
Centering the relationship between structural racism and individual bias (2022) (0)
To the Readers of Current Anthropology (2022) (0)
Anthropology and Inheritance (2022) (0)
Possible Self Dynamics of Community College Students Engaged in 3D Printing in Informal Environments (2020) (0)
Announcement (1994) (0)
The Memory of Gold: happy slaves and the problem of security (2011) (0)
Race, Politics, and Patronage: John Edward Bruce and the Republican Party (2002) (0)
Editorial (2019) (0)

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