Arrested Justice: Race, Gender Violence & the Problem with Carceral Feminism

Thursday, April 16

7:00 p.m.

ARRESTED JUSTICE: RACE, GENDER VIOLENCE & THE PROBLEM WITH CARCERAL FEMINISM

A lecture by Prof. Beth Richie

At Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, 800 University Avenue, Madison

(Room L160)

Professor Beth Richie is Director, Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy; and is Professor of African American Studies and Criminology, Law and Justice at the University of Illinois, Chicago. This lecture is free and open to the public.

For more information contact Karma: krchaves@wisc.edu

Hosted by the UW's Comparative US Studies (CUSS) as part of its 2014-2015 Racial Justice and Incarceration Lecture Series in conjunction with the Havens Center and the Young Gifted and Black Coalition. Info? https://www.facebook.com/events/784429811610959/

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Simon Balto

Politics and Policing in Black Chicago

Graduate Student of History at UW

4:00 UW Elvehjem Room L160

March 10th

Britney Cooper

Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers

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Tuesday, 4pm, 206 Ingraham

March 11th

Brittney

"We Can't Breathe: Making Black Lives Matter in the 21st Century"

Wednesday, 4pm, 8417 Social Science

April 16th

Beth Richie

Director of Institute on Race and Public Policy and Author of Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence and America's Prison Nation

7:00 pm

UW Elvehjem L160

April 17th

Beth Richie

Teach in at the Pyle Center

11:00-2:00 pm