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Elizabeth Hinton on “From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America”


Revolution Books in Harlem will host a talk and reading by Elizabeth Hinton, author of the new book From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America.

Challenging the belief that the rise of mass incarceration originated with the Reagan administration’s War on Drugs, Elizabeth Hinton traces the meteoric expansion of prisons to the Great Society programs of Lyndon B. Johnson.

“Stretching beyond the typical scope of an academic text, Hinton’s book is more than an argument; it is a revelation… Readers will learn how the militarization of the police that we’ve witnessed in Ferguson and elsewhere had roots in the 1960s.” –NY Times review

Hinton is an urban historian, and teaches in the Department of History and the Department of African and African American Studies at Harvard University.

Revolution Books is all-volunteer, not-for-profit–the bookstore about the world and for a radically different world.











When: Mon., Apr. 17, 2017 at 7:00 pm
Where: Revolution Books
437 Malcolm X Blvd./Lenox Ave. @132nd St
212-691-3345
Price: $5-$10 suggested donation
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Revolution Books in Harlem will host a talk and reading by Elizabeth Hinton, author of the new book From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America.

Challenging the belief that the rise of mass incarceration originated with the Reagan administration’s War on Drugs, Elizabeth Hinton traces the meteoric expansion of prisons to the Great Society programs of Lyndon B. Johnson.

“Stretching beyond the typical scope of an academic text, Hinton’s book is more than an argument; it is a revelation… Readers will learn how the militarization of the police that we’ve witnessed in Ferguson and elsewhere had roots in the 1960s.” –NY Times review

Hinton is an urban historian, and teaches in the Department of History and the Department of African and African American Studies at Harvard University.

Revolution Books is all-volunteer, not-for-profit–the bookstore about the world and for a radically different world.

Buy tickets/get more info now