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Texas Tough: Author to speak in Austin

Michele Deitch asked me to post this, so here you go:From the William Wayne Justice Center:Join us for a book talk by Robert Perkinson, author of Texas Tough: The Rise of America?s Prison EmpireMonday, November 22, from 3:00-4:00 p.m. in the Law School?s Sheffield RoomTexas Tough is a critically acclaimed history of imprisonment, race, and politics from slavery to the present, with an emphasis on Texas. Drawing on ethnographical, archival, legal, and legislative research, Perkinson argues that the history of American criminal justice is a more Southern story than most have acknowledged, and that the politics of race and reaction have played a prominent role in the expansion of incarceration. The New York Times Book Review called Texas Tough ?a searching history of American incarceration ...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on November 14, 2010 (boomark / email).