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Experts
Yasser Payne
Associate Professor
Sociology & Criminal Justice
Africana Studies
Areas of Expertise
- Developed a street ethnographic research program that uses the following community approach: Street Participatory Action Research (Street PAR) — the process of doing research and activism with street identified populations.
- Focuses on policing and reentry; gun violence; school-to-prison pipeline; Black masculinity; and Gangster Rap music and culture.
- Able to comment on President Joe Biden's Racial Equity Plan; and the relationship between low-income urban communities with civic and political leadership.
- Leads two Street PAR projects on gun violence in the City of Wilmington with Christiana Care Hospital; and as part of the National Collaborative on Gun Violence Research, he also leads a national Street PAR project on gun violence in five cities: Wilmington, DE; Baltimore, MD; Detroit, Michigan; and News Orleans, Louisiana.
Contact Information
302-831-4383
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