SCA SPEAKER SERIES: ROB PERKINSON, “The Southern Origins of the American Gulag”
Tue Apr 13 5pm – Tue Apr 13 7pm
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20 Cooper Square, New York, NY 10003
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SCA SPEAKER SERIES presents: ROB PERKINSON “The Southern Origins of the American Gulag” 20 Cooper Square, 4th Fl New York, NY 10003 ROBERT PERKINSON will be presenting and discussing his new book TEXAS TOUGH, which chronicles the history of the Texas prison industry, which was originally built as a way to control the newly emancipated population after slavery was outlawed in the US. Perkinson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. He received his BA from the University of Colorado at Boulder and his MA and PhD in American Studies from Yale University. He has written on an array of historical, social, and political topics. Recent articles have addressed the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, the history of the World Bank in Asia, U.S. foreign policy since 9/11, and the legacy of convict leasing. His work has appeared in numerous popular and scholarly forums, from The Straights Times and Boston Review to Radical History Review and the Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars. Perkinson has also worked with numerous activist and criminal justice reform organizations, among them the Drug Policy Forum of Hawai‘i, Critical Resistance, the University of Hawai‘i Professional Assembly, and Yale’s Graduate Employee Student Organization.
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