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Jackson quoted in Vox article on police reform

Following the Derek Chauvin verdict, President Joe Biden called for changing policing by "acknowledging and confronting, head-on, systemic racism and the racial disparities that exist in policing and in our criminal justice system more broadly." One such idea is to abolish the police. Proponents think communities can work together to regulate themselves without "anti-Black, white supremacist institutions," like the American criminal justice system and policing—which got its start with slave patrols—according to Jenn Jackson, assistant professor of political science. Read more in the Vox article, "9 ideas to solve the broken institution of policing."

April 27, 2021

Jackson quoted in the Guardian article on the use of tasers by police

"The reforms haven’t changed the way that especially black and brown folks experience policing,” says Jenn Jackson, assistant professor of political science. "We are still seeing the same violence…Whatever tools that police officers have at their disposal will be used to physically harm those people, whether it’s a billy club, hose, a dog, a Taser or a gun."

April 21, 2021

See related: Crime & Violence, Law, United States

Jackson talks about Black women's experiences with COVID-19 in GenForward

In their article, "This Women’s History Month, Recognize Black Women’s Efforts To Save Ourselves," published by the GenForward Survey, Assistant Professor of Political Science Jenn Jackson discusses Black women's experiences with COVID-19.

March 16, 2021

Jackson op-ed on protectionism, white femininity published in Truthout

"White women have to disabuse themselves en masse of the notion that they are inherently good. They have to put themselves in harm’s way, disrupt the status quo of their own complicity in white supremacy and defer to those who are more vulnerable than themselves," writes Jenn Jackson, assistant professor of political science.

November 18, 2020

Jackson wins Tenth Decade grant to study Black Americans, group threat

Jenn Jackson, assistant professor of political science, has been awarded $20,000 for their research project "Race, Risks, and Responses: Mapping Black Americans’ Response to Group Threat." The grant is part of a special call to Maxwell faculty offering Tenth Decade Project funding to support research and initiatives that confront systemic racial inequality.

September 21, 2020

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Jackson discusses forced sterilizations, criminalization via Truthout

"The United States’s commitment to eugenics, medical abuse and forced sterilizations depicts the complex nature of perceived criminality in this country," writes Jenn Jackson, assistant professor of political science. "By marking certain people’s bodies as inherently...anti-patriotic, the state casts a veil over the grave human rights infringements and institutional abuses it enacts against nonwhite, non-wealthy, non-male, non-normative people."

September 17, 2020

Jackson discusses Kamala Harris as vice presidential pick in Teen Vogue, Truthout

"Despite the historic nature of her career and vice presidential nomination, we can’t lose our capacity to remain critical of her record and uncertain about how her potential vice presidency might affect marginalized communities," writes Jenn Jackson, assistant professor of political science.

August 17, 2020

See related: Black, U.S. Elections, United States

Jackson cited in Slate article on capitalizing white

"We don’t need any more mechanisms to make whiteness more visible," says Jenn Jackson, assistant professor of political science.

August 12, 2020

Jackson speaks to Vox about the meaning of abolish the police

"By 'abolish the police,' I mean building a world where we do not rely on anti-Black, white supremacist institutions of order to regulate society," says Jenn Jackson, assistant professor of political science.

June 16, 2020

See related: Law, Race & Ethnicity, United States

Jenn Jackson paper on Black women’s self-making published in Public Culture

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February 3, 2020

See related: Gender and Sex, Race & Ethnicity

Jackson shares her perspective on racial acts on campus in Washington Post

Jenn Jackson writer about the #NotAgainSU movement, discussing her experience with racism on the Syracuse University campus. "These events force us to confront the thin line between our beliefs and our practices,"

December 3, 2019

Jackson talks about fighting bigotry during the holidays in Teen Vogue

November 25, 2019

Jackson weighs in on women's bodily autonomy in Washington Post

"[Deyjah Harris] is an adult—she can pretty much do what she wants—so why is he [Harris' father, Clifford Joseph] still invested in what she does with her body?" says Jenn Jackson, assistant professor of political science. "These are the types of ways young girls are socialized to understand their bodies do not belong to them, that they are a societal possession."

November 7, 2019

Jackson discusses forgiveness after violence on WNYC's The Takeaway

"What's happening, at least in my research, is that young people have been organizing for a great deal of time. And what they've been saying is that, you know, enough is enough," says Jenn Jackson, assistant professor of political science.

October 15, 2019

See related: Black, Crime & Violence, United States

Maxwell announces new faculty members, department chair

The academic year begins at the Maxwell School with the arrival of several new faculty members. In addition, Tom Perreault, professor of geography, is the new chair of the Department of Geography.

September 12, 2019

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Jackson featured in Medium article on imposter syndrome

"By labeling every single moment of self-doubt expressed by women, primarily those of color, as impostor syndrome, we flatten the complexities and pervasiveness of White Supremacy and patriarchy," writes Jenn Jackson, assistant professor of political science.

September 9, 2019

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