Race Matters and Pedagogy in Higher Education: Ongoing Work

Guest editor\u27s introduction to the Race and Pedagogy Journal\u27s special issue, Race and Higher Educatio

LOOK UP AND SMILE FOR DADDY WARBUCKS’S SURVEILLANCE PLANE: REFORMING THE STANDARD FOR DETERMINING WHEN A PRIVATE SEARCH CONSTITUTES GOVERNMENT ACTION, AND WHY IT’S NEEDED TO MEET THE GROWING FOURTH AMENDMENT PROBLEM OF PRIVATIZED SURVEILLANCE

Sometime in 2015, the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) struck a secret three-way partnership to subject its city to continuous aerial surveillance by a private company.1 Under the hush-hush partnership, Ohio-based Persistent Surveillance Systems (PSS) regularly flew a small plane equipped with high-powered cameras over Baltimore for months to capture and store hundreds of hours of footage that was analyzed by PSS’s employees and contractors for information and leads to assist BPD investigations.2 The effort was funded by the third party to the partnership—a wealthy married couple in Texas (Laura and John Arnold), who had taken an interest in PSS after hearing about the company and its aerial surveillance system on the radio.3 The money ($360,000) the Arnolds donated for the effort was funneled through the Baltimore Community Foundation, a nonprofit organization that administers donations to a range of civic causes in the city.4 BPD was able to keep the partnership and the resulting surveillance a secret from the Baltimore city council, the city’s mayor, and the public because the project was funded by a private third party and not the city treasury.5 Once the secret surveillance program was launched, the PSS plane that circled Baltimore recorded 100 hours of surveillance video between January and February 2016, and another 200 hours between June and August of that year.

Against the Grain of Modernity: The Politics of Difference and the Conservation of Race

Harkaitz Cano's Twist is a novel taking place mainly indoors. The rare moments in which the action happens in open air have a significant importance assuming a symbolic and structural function. The article explores the scenes set in an open space to interpret symbols, intentionality and interpretations arising from them.La novela Twist de Harkaitz Cano se desarrolla principalmente en ambientes cerrados. Los escasos momentos en que la acción se lleva a escenarios abiertos tienen una importancia relevante asumiendo una función simbólica y estructural. El artículo profundiza en las escenas que transcurren al abierto para interpretar los símbolos, la intencionalidad y las interpretaciones que de ellas emanan