Confronting the Carceral State:
Policing and Punishment in Modern U.S. History

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Friday, March 5, 2010
Conference Rooms A&B, Brower Commons
(145 College Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ)
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Please RSVP at rucarceralstate@gmail.com

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Conference Program

WELCOMING REMARKS
(8:45am - 9:00am)

Donna Murch, Rutgers New Brunswick

PANEL ONE / ENGENDERING THE CARCERAL STATE
(9:00am - 10:45am)

Cheryl D. Hicks, UNC Charlotte
“‘She Would Be Better Off in the South’: Sending Women on Parole from the Urban North to their Southern Kin, 1920-1935.”

Yohuru Williams, Fairfield University
“A Holiday of Blood: Gender, Lynching, and Jim Crow Justice in Early Twentieth Century Delaware”

Commentator: Kali Gross, Drexel University
 

PANEL TWO / RACE AND CRIMINALIZATION
(11:00am - 12:45pm)

Miroslava Chavez-Garcia, UC Davis
“Youth, Race, and Science in California’s Emerging Juvenile Justice System, 1850 to 1940”

Khalil G. Muhammad, Indiana University
“Where Did All the White Criminals Go?: The Reinvention of Racial Criminalities on the Road to Mass Incarceration.”

Commentator: Marta Gutman, CUNY
 

PANEL THREE / POLICING AND PUNISHMENT IN POSTWAR AMERICA
(2:00pm - 3:45pm)

Heather Ann Thompson, Temple University
“Why Mass Incarceration Matters: Rethinking Crisis, Decline, and Transformation in Postwar American History”

Timothy Stewart-Winter, Rutgers Newark
“Over the Rainbow? Sexuality, Race, and the Politics of Police Brutality in Chicago, 1960s-1980s.”

Commentator: Tony Platt, Sacramento State

PLENARY DISCUSSION
(4:00pm - 5:30pm)

w/ Short Film by Art Jones

BOOK EXHIBITION WITH RECEPTION
(5:30pm - 6:30pm)

Khalil G. Muhammad, Tony Platt, and Donna Murch

Please RSVP at rucarceralstate@gmail.com