Dirkson explores how concerns about poverty-induced Black crime cultivated by police, journalists, and city officials sparked a rise in tough-on-crime policing in Philadelphia. During the Great Migration of African Americans... READ MORE
Join 蜜桃传媒 at the 138th Annual AHA Annual Meeting!
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Book tour stop at Small Friend Records & Books with David Campbell and Jarrod Shanahan of City Time: On Being Sentenced to Rikers Island.
David Campbell聽and聽Jarrod Shanahan聽both served sentences at Rikers. In their book聽City Time聽they offer an unvarnished account of the banality and brutality of incarceration at New York City鈥檚 notorious jail. Campbell and... READ MORE
A remarkable autobiography of Alice Rothchild's journey from 1950's good girl to irreverent, feisty, feminist obstetrician-gynecologist forging her own direction in the contradictory, sexist world of medicine Third Place Books... READ MORE
Rikers scholars book talk event, featuring "City Time: On Being Sentenced to Rikers Island"
Join us at The DuBois-Robeson People鈥檚 Center for a book reading with Menika Dirkson, author of聽Hope and Struggle in the Policed City.聽
A unique insider perspective of daily life in New York City鈥檚 most notorious house of correction. While most people behind bars at Rikers Island are detainees awaiting the settlement of... READ MORE
