Marie Gottschalk, professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania, will engage Adolph Reed, Jr., also a professor of political science at Penn, in a conversation moderated by Carlos Figueroa, assistant professor of politics at Ithaca College.
Gottschalk and Reed will discuss some of the moral, social, and political issues stemming from local, state, and federal policies related to mass incarceration; the origins, development, and consolidation of the U.S. carceral state; and what it means today following the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. A question-and-answer session will follow.
Gottschalk specializes in American politics, with a focus on criminal justice, health policy, race, the development of the welfare state, and business-labor relations. Her latest book is Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics (Princeton University Press, 2014). She is also the author of The Prison and the Gallows: The Politics of Mass Incarceration in America (Cambridge University Press, 2006), which won the 2007 Ellis W. Hawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians, and she was a contributor to the NRC report The Growth of Incarceration in the United States: Exploring Causes and Consequences (National Academies Press, 2014).
Reed is the preeminent scholar on race, class, and working class/labor politics. His research interests include American and Afro-American politics and political thought, urban politics, and American political development. His numerous books include Renewing Black Intellectual History: The Ideological and Material Foundations of African American Thought (with Kenneth W. Warren et al., Paradigm Press, 2010); Without Justice for All: The New Liberalism and the Retreat from Racial Equality (Westview Press, 2001); Class Notes: Posing as Politics and Other Thoughts on the American Scene (The New Press, 2000); Stirrings in the Jug: Black Politics in the Post-Segregation Era (University of Minnesota Press, 1999); and W.E.B. Dubois and American Political Thought: Fabianism and the Color Line (Oxford University Press, 1997), which won the 1998 Outstanding Book award from the National Conference of Black Political Scientists.
Figueroa teaches and writes in the areas of American political development; race, religion and citizenship; Latino politics; African-American politics and political thought; interpretive policy analysis and public leadership. He has published in the Journal of Public Affairs Education, the Journal of Race and Policy, among others. He joined the IC Politics Department in 2013.
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