Date: February 14, 2013
Time: 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Cost: N/A
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Location: Law 200
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Description:

Brothers and Keepers: A Memoir by John Wideman gives us insights into the personal

aspects of the relationship between brothers one of whom is incarcerated and the other is

socially “successful”. Michelle Alexander’s book The New Jim Crow and her Commitment to

Community talk in Fall 2012 helped us see the larger social, legal, and systemic dimensions

of the gradual escalation of incarceration of African American men in the US since the

sixties. Wideman takes us into the personal dimensions of what happens to families and

their relationships.

Please email vdeo@hamline.edu to join the reading group for February 14 and 18, 2013.