Bringing Down the Big House: Reframing Abolition as Policy
Legacies of Racism
February 26, 2025
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (CT)
Location
Room 1-470, Daley Library
Address
801 S. Morgan St., Chicago, IL 60607
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About the event: Join UIC’s Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy, the Sociology Department, and the Criminology, Law & Justice Department for a conversation with Dr. John Eason. Dr. Eason is a renegade scholar, teacher, mentor, and recovering community/political organizer who worked on the Southside of Chicago and served as a Director of Field Operations for then Illinois State Senator Barack Obama. Currently, he is the Watson Family University Associate Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs at Brown University and a Senior Research Fellow in the Justice Policy Center and the Office of Race and Equity Research at the Urban Institute where he leads the project on Reducing Prisons in Rural Communities of Color. He is also the Founder and Director of the emerging Justice Policy Lab @ Brown University providing research opportunities and mentoring to junior scholars.
Registration is required. Please use the link below to register for the event.
About the series: Events in the Legacies of Racism Series deepen our understanding of the challenges and possibilities of policy efforts to address longstanding racial inequality. Legacies of Racism events build on the themes from our State of Racial Justice in Chicago reports and explore the recent and historic origins of racial and ethnic inequities and ask questions about what it means to try to repair systematic harm done to people and communities.
Date posted
Jan 6, 2025
Date updated
Jan 6, 2025
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