Busboys and Politics, Brookland625 Monroe St NE, Washington, DC 20017Pearl Bailey Room | November 16, 2015 | 6:30 pm - 8:30 pmPolitics & Prose at Busboys and Poets, Brookland, presents James Kilgore to discuss his new book Understanding Mass Incarceration: A People’s Guide to the Key Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time.Once the “land of the free,” today the U.S. is the world’s largest jailer. Over the last 40 years, as Kilgore, author of We Are All Zimbabweans Now, documents in this well-illustrated People’s Guide, the country has witnessed an explosive growth in prison populations, especially of minorities and the poor. Seeking explanations for these demographics, Kilgore, a student activist and former SLA member who lived in South Africa for 27 years until his extradition and imprisonment in the U.S., combines history, economics, statistics, and prisoners’ own stories to show how the criminal justice system has been used to try to resolve issues of racial conflict, inequality, citizenship, gender and sexuality.Kilgore will be in conversation with Marc Mauer, executive director of The Sentencing Project.

Busboys and Politics, Brookland

625 Monroe St NE, Washington, DC 20017

Pearl Bailey Room | November 16, 2015 | 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Politics & Prose at Busboys and Poets, Brookland, presents James Kilgore to discuss his new book Understanding Mass Incarceration: A People’s Guide to the Key Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time.

Once the “land of the free,” today the U.S. is the world’s largest jailer. Over the last 40 years, as Kilgore, author of We Are All Zimbabweans Now, documents in this well-illustrated People’s Guide, the country has witnessed an explosive growth in prison populations, especially of minorities and the poor. Seeking explanations for these demographics, Kilgore, a student activist and former SLA member who lived in South Africa for 27 years until his extradition and imprisonment in the U.S., combines history, economics, statistics, and prisoners’ own stories to show how the criminal justice system has been used to try to resolve issues of racial conflict, inequality, citizenship, gender and sexuality.

Kilgore will be in conversation with Marc Mauer, executive director of The Sentencing Project.

Nov 10, 2015
TANYA GOLASH-BOZA - DEPORTED: POLICING IMMIGRANTS, DISPOSABLE LABOR AND GLOBAL CAPITALISMSaturday, November 21, 2015 at 1 p.m.Politics & Prose5015 Connecticut Ave. NWWashington, D.C. 20008Since 1997, the U.S. has deported five million people—double the number prior to 1996. The statistics speak for themselves—almost. The individuals behind these numbers have real lives and real stories, and in her fifth book, Golash-Boza, University of California, Merced, associate professor of sociology, author of Immigration Nation and a contributor to media outlets including Al Jazeera and The Nation, presents details of nearly 150 deportees, the vast majority of them Latin American and Caribbean men. From this basic profile, Golash-Boza explores the wider socio-economic conditions at work, from race and employment status to a criminal justice system whose only way out for immigrants is deportation.

TANYA GOLASH-BOZA - DEPORTED: POLICING IMMIGRANTS, DISPOSABLE LABOR AND GLOBAL CAPITALISM

Saturday, November 21, 2015 at 1 p.m.

Politics & Prose

5015 Connecticut Ave. NW

Washington, D.C. 20008

Since 1997, the U.S. has deported five million people—double the number prior to 1996. The statistics speak for themselves—almost. The individuals behind these numbers have real lives and real stories, and in her fifth book, Golash-Boza, University of California, Merced, associate professor of sociology, author of Immigration Nation and a contributor to media outlets including Al Jazeera and The Nation, presents details of nearly 150 deportees, the vast majority of them Latin American and Caribbean men. From this basic profile, Golash-Boza explores the wider socio-economic conditions at work, from race and employment status to a criminal justice system whose only way out for immigrants is deportation.

Nov 10, 2015
During the past couple of years in which identity politics have taken center stage, multimedia artist Jefferson Pinder examines the 21st–century social conflicts through break dancing. Working with the international b–boy crew Lionz of Zion, Pinder directs a performance that wrestles with the nature of violence and control. The performance unfolds contemporary uprisings and the forces that seek to control them. Dark Matter(s) is organized by the David C. Driskell Center for the Study of African America Art and the African Diaspora at the University of Maryland in collaboration with The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC.Dark Matter(s)Friday, September 11, 2015 6–8PMatThe David C. Driskell Center1207 Cole Student Activities Building. University of Maryland, College ParkPerformance is followed by a conversation with the artist and dancersFriday’s performance is supported by the David C. Driskell Center, the College of Arts and Humanities and the Department of Art at the University of Maryland, College ParkSpace is very limited.RSVP by September 8, 2015contact by email driskellcenter@umd.edu or by phone 301.314.2615

During the past couple of years in which identity politics have taken center stage, multimedia artist Jefferson Pinder examines the 21st–century social conflicts through break dancing. Working with the international b–boy crew Lionz of Zion, Pinder directs a performance that wrestles with the nature of violence and control. The performance unfolds contemporary uprisings and the forces that seek to control them. Dark Matter(s) is organized by the David C. Driskell Center for the Study of African America Art and the African Diaspora at the University of Maryland in collaboration with The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC.

Dark Matter(s)

Friday, September 11, 2015
6–8PM
at
The David C. Driskell Center

1207 Cole Student Activities Building. University of Maryland, College Park

Performance is followed by a conversation with the artist and dancers
Friday’s performance is supported by the David C. Driskell Center, the College of Arts and Humanities and the Department of Art at the University of Maryland, College Park

Space is very limited.
RSVP by September 8, 2015
contact by email driskellcenter@umd.edu or by phone 301.314.2615

Sep 08, 2015
Director Stanley Nelson will be at DC’s E Street Cinema screenings at 7:15pm on Friday, September 18 and Saturday, September 19.

Director Stanley Nelson will be at DC’s E Street Cinema screenings at 7:15pm on Friday, September 18 and Saturday, September 19.

Sep 08, 2015