Humanities New York (HNY) invites you to join us and the Correctional Association of New York (CANY) for a conversation with historian Heather Ann Thompson, author of Blood in the Water, the Pulitzer-prize winning history of the 1971 Attica Prison uprising and its lasting impact. Thompson’s book, the definitive examination of this turbulent moment in New York history, is also an excellent prompt for encouraging sober-minded thinking about the ripple effect of incarceration in American society. Space is limited, Register Here. This event is the first in a series of HNY engagements with the New York prison ecosystem, a project […]
Excerpt: “Making Mass Incarceration”
The following is an excerpt from Elizabeth Hinton’s From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime. Elizabeth is Assistant Professor in the Department History and the Department of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. Hinton’s research focuses on the persistence of poverty and racial inequality in the 20th century United States. If you’d like to explore the broader historical context of mass incarceration, you may watch After Attica: Criminal Justice and Mass Incarceration on our YouTube channel. In the century between the end of the U.S. Civil War in 1865 and Johnson’s call for the War […]
