Locking Up Our Own: Race, Class, and the Politics of Mass Incarceration

Document Type

Lecture

Publication Date

11-15-2018

Abstract

On November 15, 2018, James Forman Jr., delivered the 2018 Philip A. Hart Memorial Lecture “Locking Up Our Own: Race, Class, and the Politics of Mass Incarceration,” based on his book. Since 2011, Professor Forman has been teaching at Yale Law School; he also taught at Georgetown Law from 2003 to 2011, and several other law schools and institutions. His book Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April 2017) won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and was named one of the New York Times’s 10 Best Books of 2017. Professor Forman was a public defender in Washington, D.C. from 1994 to 2000. He also co-founded the Maya Angelou Public Charter School in Washington D.C. in 1997.

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