1. Police Carding in Toronto
Discourses on racism, power and resistance
by Julet Allen

2. “Every single day, Black body in this city face violence, whether its carding, whether it’s surveillance, whether it’s physical violence and whether it’s death. This is life and death for us. We are her to let you know, and put you on watch, and let you that we take action.” Rodney Diverlus (co-founder of Black Lives Matter

3. Outline Introduction and Background Research Questions Methodology
Critical Theoretical Framework
Findings
Tips for new students

4. Introduction and Background
Contentious issue facing the city
Toronto’s Black population policed differently
Toronto Star propelled
Experience with Black youth and the Black community

5. Research Questions
How is the practice of police carding reported and discussed in popular media?
How do the discourses of police carding in our city drive the images of Black males as inherently criminal?
How is the particular experiences of the Black community constructed and how is the community’s voice represented in the face of carding?

6. Methodology
Employed critical discourse analysis to understand social power, dominance and inequality.
Work framed by (CDA) have some basic underlying assumptions
Oppression is intersecting and unknowingly reproduced
Certain groups privilege over others

7. Methodology cont’d
Review of the literature on racial profiling, police carding
Examined Toronto area newspaper within the last five years
Used search terms “police carding”, “racism”, “racial profiling”, “policing”

8. Theoretical Framework
Critical Race Theory
Deconstruct, analyze and transform the relationship among race, racism and power
Clarify the rifts between the dominant discourses of police
Employs the tool of story telling and counter story telling

9. Theoretical Framework
Critical Theory of Whiteness
Woven in the hidden fabric of the dominant culture
Social work practice deeply rooted in euro-centric values and norms
Whiteness allows for the producing and reproducing of power dynamic that sustains institutional and society wide oppression and reinforces superiority and subordination

10. Findings
How is the practice of police carding reported and discussed in popular media?
Denial of racial profiling/police carding
Policing space and race
Racialization of Crime
Discourse of Political Correctness
Reluctance to end carding

11. Findings cont’d
How do the discourses of police carding in our city drive the images of Blacks males as inherently criminal and how does that influence how police respond to Black bodies in certain spaces?
Considered a potential threat to public safety
Talking about crime is talking about race –
Criminality associated with Black bodies

12. Findings cont’d Criminalization of an entire community
How are the particular experiences of the Black community constructed and how is the community’s voice represented in the face of carding?
Criminalization of an entire community
Reciprocal distrust between police and the Black community
Racial‘exceptionalism’
Black Lives Matter Movement

13. Tips for new students Choose a topic you are passionate about
Use zotero ref work
Use the Library resourcces
Complete a annotated bibliography
Work closely with your advisor
Recognize challenges early on