Dennis Childs

Is the United States? prison system a modern equivalent to slavery? Dennis Childs, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Literature and an affiliate faculty member of the Department of Ethnic Studies and Critical Gender Studies at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), believes so. Childs will be coming to Central Washington University to discuss his latest book, ?Slaves of the State: Black Incarceration from the Chain Gang to the Penitentiary? on April 20 at 6:30 p.m. in the Student Union and Recreation Center (SURC) Room 137. His talk is free and open to the public. His book has been described as offering a cultural, legal, and political history of racial capitalist misogynist incarceration in the U.S. from the late nineteenth century through the prison industrial complex. The United States prison system affects the entire country, don?t miss this chance to understand how it works. This talk is part of the CWU Social Justice and Human Rights Series. This year?s theme, Mass Incarceration and Racial Justice: Black and Brown Lives Do Matter, seeks to educate Central?s community and spark discussions about race and equality.