Wednesday, November 30
5:15-7pm
554 Barrows Hall
UC Berkeley
Facilitated by: Chance Grable, Undergraduate History Student & Member of Critical Resistance.
Sponsored by: The American Cultures Center, Center for the Study of Law & Society, Department of Ethnic Studies, Office of Undergraduate Research & Scholarships.
The United States currently has the largest prison population on the planet. Drawing from his new book, Incarcerating the Crisis: Freedom Struggles and the Rise of the Neoliberal State (University of California Press, 2016), Jordan T. Camp will trace the roots of the carceral crisis through a series of turning points in U.S. history, beginning with the urban uprisings of the 1960s and terminating with the policing crisis of 2014-2016. Through an examination of these dramatic instances of racial criminalization and state violence, he will suggest the making of the neoliberal carceral state was not inevitable and that alternative outcomes have been and continue to be possible.
About the Author:
Jordan T. Camp is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Race and Ethnicity and International and Public Affairs at Brown University. He is the author of Incarcerating the Crisis: Freedom Struggles and the Rise of the Neoliberal State (University of California Press, 2016), and co-editor (with Christina Heatherton) of Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter (Verso Books, 2016).
