Attention Mailman students, APHAC members should attend "Why Mass Incarceration Matters for Social Workers". I plan on attending and you should too. The reasons why mass incarceration matters to SW surely overlaps and correlates with population health. Join!
DATE: Wednesday, February 29, 2012
TIME: 8:15 PM – 9:45 PM
WHERE: Columbia University School of Social Work (1255 Amsterdam Ave) Room C03
SPEAKER: Dr. Heather Ann Thompson, Associate Professor of History at Temple University
"Heather Ann Thompson is associate professor of history in the Department of African American Studies and Department of History at Temple University. A scholar of African American, urban, labor, political, and policy history in the U.S. during the 1960s and 1970s, her current work centers on the rise of the carceral state during this period and the devastating long-term costs of mass incarceration. She is currently writing the first comprehensive study of the history and legacy of the Attica Prison Rebellion of 1971 (forthcoming from Pantheon Books), a study that she hopes will recapture this dramatic and complex story and underscore the event?s historical and contemporary importance. Thompson, the recipient of several research fellowships and awards, has written numerous book chapters and scholarly articles. Her article ?Why Mass Incarceration Matters: Rethinking Crisis, Decline and Transformation in Postwar American History? (JAH, Dec. 2010) received the Best Article in Urban History prize from the Urban History Association. She is author of Whose Detroit: Politics, Labor and Race in a Modern American City (Cornell University Press, 2001) and editor of Speaking Out: Protest and Activism in the 1960s and 1970s (Prentice Hall, 2009). Currently Thompson is also consulting on award-winning filmmaker Chris Christopher?s forthcoming documentary of the Attica Prison Uprising."
From our friends at the Criminal Justice Caucus.
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