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How Liberals Built Prison America
April 5, 2016 @ 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm
The Baruch College School of Public Affairs
invites you to the Spring 2016
Lillie and Nathan Ackerman Lecture Series on Equality and Justice
LECTURE SPEAKER: NAOMI MURAKAWA
Associate Professor in the Department of
African American Studies at Princeton University
Tuesday, April 5, 2016
Reception: 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Lecture: 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
The William and Anita Newman Vertical Campus
55 Lexington Avenue (corner of 24th St.)
14th Floor, Room 14-220
The lecture is free
and open to the public
Arlyne Kistoo at 646-660-6735 or [email protected]
This lecture will examine the explosive rise in the U.S. incarceration rate in the second half of the twentieth century, and the racial transformation of the prison population from mostly white at mid-century to sixty-five percent black and Latino in the present. In The First Civil Right, Murakawa inverts the conventional wisdom by arguing that the expansion of the carceral state was, in fact, rooted in the civil-rights liberalism of the 1940s through the mid-1960s, not in the period after. In short, the U.S. did not have a crime problem that was racialized; it had a race problem that was criminalized.