The authors start the story in 1974, when Watergate, the defeat in Vietnam, racial conflict and economic convulsions began an unsettling new political era.
The demographics of the United States are rapidly changing. Yet most of America’s political leadership continues to fit a familiar mold: white, wealthy, Christian, and male. Join us in this discussion on the need for greater diversity in American government.
Yale Law School Professor Issa Kohler-Hausmann shows how the policing experiment has subjected hundreds of thousands of people to surveillance and asserts that the lower reaches of the criminal justice system operate as a form of social control.
