Elizabeth Hinton is an assistant professor of history and of African and African American studies at Harvard University. Her research focuses on the persistence of poverty and racial inequality in the twenty-century United States.
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In the United States today, one in every thirty-one adults is under some form of penal control, including one in eleven African American men. How did the 'land of the free' become the home of the world's largest prison system? Challenging the belief that ... SEE MORE