Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Posted by on September 09, 2013
Wednesday, 25 September, 2013 • 5:00–6:30 pm
Harrison Auditorium, Penn Museum, 3260 South Street
Dr. S.T. Lee Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities
Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Michelle Alexander
Associate Professor of Law, Ohio State University
With more African American men in prison today than were enslaved in 1850, mass incarceration has become the new face of segregation in America. Who better to break the silence about racial injustice in our nation’s legal system than acclaimed civil rights advocate Michelle Alexander, whose award-winning book The New Jim Crow reveals the devastating social consequences of this systematic discrimination. Join us as she challenges the myth of “justice for all” and proposes some needed reforms.
Michelle Alexander currently holds a joint appointment at the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity and the Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University. Before joining the Kirwan Institute, Professor Alexander was an Associate Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, where she directed the Civil Rights Clinics.
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