We began to talk through the geographies of race this week, through two case studies presented by our readings--the structural and institutionalized violence of disposession and segregation in the US and the violence of immigrant immbolity both in coming to and settling in the United States (though we could just as easily be talking about Canada here).

Time has afforded us the opportunity to take a sober second look at what exactly happened in Ferguson, Missouri this past summer--and to recognize that Ferguson is in so many ways not unique at all but the result of a series of policies, programs, laws, and decisions that culminated in death, protest, and an aggresively militarized police force facing off against its citizens. 

Media coverage of 'rioting and looting' (h/t to Derek Alderman, et. al):