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Alina Das & Sylvia A. Harvey: Living in the Shadow of the US Carceral System

Join Alina Das and Sylvia A. Harvey for a discussion of their books, THE SHADOW SYSTEM and NO JUSTICE IN THE SHADOWS.

Alina Das and Sylvia A. Harvey look at the carceral system as it impacts immigrant families (No Justice in the Shadows ) and American families, including 2.7 million children (The Shadow System: Mass Incarceration and the American Family). Both books are a clarion call to fix a broken system.

Sylvia A. Harvey‘s book follows three people, a young Black father sentenced to life without parole, a white mother fighting for custody of her children and a wife who struggles to raise her sons while her husband is in prison. Alina Das traces the history of immigration policy, showing how its evolution has always been linked to racist exclusion. Through the stories of those caught in the system, she argues, we need to confront the cruelty of the machine so that we can build an inclusive immigration policy premised on human dignity and break the cycle once and for all.

A professor at New York University School of Law, Alina Das is the Co-Director of the New York University Immigrant Rights Clinic. Her legal scholarship has been published by leading law journals, and she is a frequent commentator on immigration policy for outlets including MSNBC, CNBC, PBS, WNYC, PRI, The Atlantic, Democracy Now!, The New York Times, The Nation, and VICE News. She is the recipient of multiple awards, including the Immigrant Defense Project Champion of Justice Award and the NYU Women of Color Collective Woman of Distinction Award.











When: Tue., Jul. 7, 2020 at 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Where: Shakespeare & Co.
939 Lexington Ave. (corner of 69th St.)
212-772-3400
Price: Free
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Join Alina Das and Sylvia A. Harvey for a discussion of their books, THE SHADOW SYSTEM and NO JUSTICE IN THE SHADOWS.

Alina Das and Sylvia A. Harvey look at the carceral system as it impacts immigrant families (No Justice in the Shadows ) and American families, including 2.7 million children (The Shadow System: Mass Incarceration and the American Family). Both books are a clarion call to fix a broken system.

Sylvia A. Harvey‘s book follows three people, a young Black father sentenced to life without parole, a white mother fighting for custody of her children and a wife who struggles to raise her sons while her husband is in prison. Alina Das traces the history of immigration policy, showing how its evolution has always been linked to racist exclusion. Through the stories of those caught in the system, she argues, we need to confront the cruelty of the machine so that we can build an inclusive immigration policy premised on human dignity and break the cycle once and for all.

A professor at New York University School of Law, Alina Das is the Co-Director of the New York University Immigrant Rights Clinic. Her legal scholarship has been published by leading law journals, and she is a frequent commentator on immigration policy for outlets including MSNBC, CNBC, PBS, WNYC, PRI, The Atlantic, Democracy Now!, The New York Times, The Nation, and VICE News. She is the recipient of multiple awards, including the Immigrant Defense Project Champion of Justice Award and the NYU Women of Color Collective Woman of Distinction Award.

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