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Upcoming Events:
The
Sadie Peterson Delaney African Roots Library and Occupy Poughkeepsie present:
-The
New Jim Crow- A Community Read and Lecture Series
About the Series:
The
Sadie Peterson Delaney African Roots Library is teaming up with
Occupy Poughkeepsie to sponsor a lecture series and community read
organized around The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of
Colorblindness, a New York Times bestselling book about the mass
incarceration rates of African Americans
in the contemporary United States. The group will meet at the Sadie
Peterson Delaney African Roots Library every other week on Wednesday
evenings at 6 pm from March 14-May 23.
The sessions, which are free and
open to the public, will feature opening lectures from local and
regional authorities and activists, including college professors and
former inmates of New York State prisons. Each opening lecture will
offer an overview and background information targeted to a specific
chapter from the book. The brief lecture is then followed by an open
discussion on both the book chapter and lecture.
Sessions:
-Wednesday, March 14th Introduction -Odell Winfield, Sadie Peterson Delaney African Roots Library -Jeffrey Schneider, Occupy Poughkeepsie
-Wednesday, March 28th Chapter
One: The Old Jim Crow -Quincy Mills, Assistant Professor of History at Vassar College
-Wednesday, April 11th Chapter Two: The War on Drugs: A Casualty Report -George Prendes, Community Advocate -Joe Nevins, Associate Professor of Geography and Latino/a
Studies at Vassar College
- Wednesday, April 25th Chapter Three: Race and Justice -Michael Sussman,
Civil Rights Attorney
- Wednesday, May 9th Chapters Four and Five: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration -Richard
R. Jackson, Community Advocate, Center for Law and Justice, Albany -Larry White, Community Advocate, David Rothenberg Center for Public Policy
-Wednesday,
May 23rd Chapter Six: Arresting the New Jim Crow:
Taking Action Here -Manna-Jo Green, Community
Advocate, Jobs Not Jails -Ann Perry, Poughkeepsie Common
Councilwoman, 5th Ward
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