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With so much attention drawn to the U.S. president’s daily outrageous tweets, it is easy to forget that America’s criminal justice crisis continues unabated. In a new book, Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America, James Forman, Jr. offers a fresh perspective on mass incarceration’s origins, and how to dismantle it. Focusing on African-American elected officials and policy makers, Forman explores the complicated and often conflicting impulses that led some of them to support punitive crime policies. He also celebrates the more recent shift against the war on crime, but argues that we haven’t gone nearly far enough. While most advocacy against mass incarceration has focused on non-violent drug offenders, Forman’s book illustrates why we must also change how we talk about and treat people convicted of violent offenses.
Forman will discuss the shifting landscape of race and criminal justice with Khalil Gibran Muhammad, author of The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, which won the 2011 John Hope Franklin Best Book award in American Studies.
A light lunch will be served.
Date: Monday, May 8
Time:
12:15 – 1:45 p.m. New York
5:15 – 6:45 p.m. London
6:15 – 7:45 p.m. Budapest
Location: OSF-NY 1ABC
Speakers:
- James Forman, Jr., professor of law, Yale University, Open Society Fellow (2013-2014)
- Khalil Gibran Muhammad, professor of history, race, and public policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Call-In Information:
US Call-In Number: (800) 747-5150
7-Digit Access Code: 5476988
RSVP:
Please RSVP through the public website, here.