FREEDOM LECTURE with Dr. Elizabeth Hinton

50 East Freedom Way,Cincinnati OH 45202

19 May, 2022

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In conjunction with Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration, feel free to join us for this meaningful experience! Elizabeth Hinton is Associate Professor in the Department of History and the Department of African American Studies at Yale, with a secondary appointment as Professor of Law at the Law School. Hinton’s research focuses on the persistence of poverty, racial inequality, and urban violence in the 20th century United States. She is considered one of the nation’s leading experts on criminalization and policing. In her book From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America (Harvard University Press), Hinton examines the implementation of federal law enforcement programs beginning in the mid-1960s that transformed domestic social policies and laid the groundwork for the expansion of the U.S. prison system. Hinton’s articles and op-eds can be found in the pages of the Journal of American History, the Journal of Urban History, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Boston Review, The Nation, and Time. She also coedited The New Black History: Revisiting the Second Reconstruction (Palgrave Macmillan) with the late historian Manning Marable. In her recent book America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s, Hinton powerfully illustrates how Black rebellion was born in response to poverty and exclusion, but primarily in reaction to police violence. Senior Director of Education