TALK: Race, Crime, and Citizenship
Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
(Law, Columbia & UCLA)
Thursday May 18 / 5:00 PM / MCC Theater
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The United States system of imprisonment has been analyzed as a component of the “prison-industrial complex”, but it also threatens democracy. A relic of slavery, a system of racial despotism, and a deeply gendered institution, the criminal “justice” system is also the nation’s most comprehensive apparatus for disenfranchising the poor and nonwhite population of the United States. Kimberle Williams Crenshaw is Professor of Law at Columbia University and at the UCLA Law School. A pioneering voice in Critical Race Theory, she has written widely on civil rights, race and racism, and black feminism. Crenshaw’s talk is the keynote address in the New Racial Studies Project’s Race, Crime, and Justice symposium that will take place on the UCSB campus on May 18 and 19, 2006. For more info visit www.newracialstudies.ucsb.edu

Sponsors New Racial Studies Project; MultiCultural Center; Melvin Oliver, Dean, Social Sciences; Eileen Boris, Hull Chair in Women’s Studies, Citizenship and Democracy in the 21st Century Research Focus Group, IHC

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