Project Women NYC
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ABOUT US
The goal of our project was to review a documentary from the archival video files of EVC’s past youth producers. We chose “Racism, The Internal Madness” from 1990. This documentary focuses on Racism, Imperialism, Japanese Internment, the Holocaust, Segregation, Civil Rights. We decided to compare this 30-year-old video to what racism looks like today on Social Media.
Dr. Frank S. Pezzella is an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice with the Department of Criminal Justice at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. His primary research focus is on the causes, correlates, and consequences of hate crimes victimizations. To this end, he has published several peer reviewed journal articles on the uniqueness of injuries to hate crime victims and also authored a monograph entitled Hate Crime Statutes: A public policy and law enforcement dilemma. He also conducts research on the issues that relate to race, crime and justice such as variations in sentencing and circumstances surrounding the authorized use of deadly force. He regularly teaches courses in Hate Crimes; Criminological Theory; Race, Ethnicity, Crime and Justice and Research Methods. Prior to coming to John Jay College, he worked for the New York State Office of Court Administration as a Deputy Chief Clerk and Principal Court Analyst assigned to budgeting, planning and implementing mental health, drug treatment and reentry courts.