Elizabeth Hinton
Biographic Data
| ID | 243462 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Hinton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Hinton |
| SIGNATURE | HINTON E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-3372-9257 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Last Great Battle of the West”
This book was not reviewed by the AHR upon its original publication and its review now is part of the journal’s reckoning with racist aspects of its work and influence. In the aftermath of the unprecedented mass mobilization for racial justice in the summer of 2020, an emerging national dialogue moved corporations, media outlets, nonprofit organizations, and public institutions to consider their responsibility in perpetuating inequality. The AHA …
Roundtable
To begin this special issue on the Black 1980s, we asked some of the leading thinkers in the area of post–Civil Rights era Black politics, culture, and society to help us to wrestle with issues of chronology, historiography, and the complicated connections between African Americans and the Black world in this crucial decade. In particular, we wanted to begin a conversation about how we define the Black 1980s and what impact focusing on the period…
The Mass Criminalization of Black Americans
This review synthesizes the historical literature on the criminalization and incarceration of black Americans for an interdisciplinary audience. Drawing on key insights from new histories in the field of American carceral studies, we trace the multifaceted ways in which policymakers and officials at all levels of government have used criminal law, policing, and imprisonment as proxies for exerting social control in predominantly black communities…
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime
How did the land of the free become the home of the world's largest prison system? Elizabeth Hinton traces the rise of mass incarceration to an ironic source: not the War on Drugs of the Reagan administration but the War on Crime that began during Johnson's Great Society at the height of the civil rights era
Author’s Response
I am deeply humbled by Simon Balto’s, Martha Biondi’s, Kevin Boyle’s, and Touré F. Reed’s thoughtful consideration of From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America. It is truly an honor to engage my work with four scholars who have influenced my own thinking and whom I deeply admire. And I am grateful to the Newberry Library and Labor: Studies in Working-Class History for bringing us into conversation.Th…
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime
How did the land of the free become the home of the world’s largest prison system? Elizabeth Hinton traces the rise of mass incarceration to an ironic source: not the War on Drugs of the Reagan administration but the War on Crime that began during Johnson’s Great Society at the height of the civil rights era
Generations of Struggle
Creating Crime
Beginning with the Johnson administration, this article examines the development of the juvenile justice system and the subsequent criminalization of African American youth and the urban spaces they inhabited. Soon after Lyndon Johnson called for the “War on Crime” in 1965, federal officials merged the social welfare and law enforcement measures of the Great Society in new and innovative ways. The administration designed programs such as Youth Se…
A War within Our Own Boundaries
Over the five summers of Lyndon B. Johnson's presidency, the nation witnessed more than 250 incidents of urban civil disorder. The violence—termed riots by policy makers, journalists, and the public—swept American cities and resulted in the deaths of more than two hundred black Americans, thirteen thousand injured civilians and officers, and the destruction of billions of dollars worth of property. Beginning with the killing of an unarmed black f…
Mass Incarceration at the Crossroads
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Oldest Brother's Story
Writer Elizabeth Hinton collected and translated the folktales in this volume during her stay in the Pwo Karen village of Dong Luang in the hills of northern Thailand, in 1968 and 1969. She places the stories in the context of the people she knew there, endearingly framed by their human relationships, daily routines, and cycle of seasons-indeed, the very stuff from which the stories themselves spring. The tales are woven into the village's unchan…
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime
How did the land of the free become the home of the world’s largest prison system? Elizabeth Hinton traces the rise of mass incarceration to an ironic source: not the War on Drugs of the Reagan administration but the War on Crime that began during Johnson’s Great Society at the height of the civil rights era
A War within Our Own Boundaries
Over the five summers of Lyndon B. Johnson's presidency, the nation witnessed more than 250 incidents of urban civil disorder. The violence—termed riots by policy makers, journalists, and the public—swept American cities and resulted in the deaths of more than two hundred black Americans, thirteen thousand injured civilians and officers, and the destruction of billions of dollars worth of property. Beginning with the killing of an unarmed black f…
Creating Crime
Beginning with the Johnson administration, this article examines the development of the juvenile justice system and the subsequent criminalization of African American youth and the urban spaces they inhabited. Soon after Lyndon Johnson called for the “War on Crime” in 1965, federal officials merged the social welfare and law enforcement measures of the Great Society in new and innovative ways. The administration designed programs such as Youth Se…
Oldest Brother's Story
Writer Elizabeth Hinton collected and translated the folktales in this volume during her stay in the Pwo Karen village of Dong Luang in the hills of northern Thailand, in 1968 and 1969. She places the stories in the context of the people she knew there, endearingly framed by their human relationships, daily routines, and cycle of seasons-indeed, the very stuff from which the stories themselves spring. The tales are woven into the village's unchan…
Creating Crime
Beginning with the Johnson administration, this article examines the development of the juvenile justice system and the subsequent criminalization of African American youth and the urban spaces they inhabited. Soon after Lyndon Johnson called for the “War on Crime” in 1965, federal officials merged the social welfare and law enforcement measures of the Great Society in new and innovative ways. The administration designed programs such as Youth Se…
A War within Our Own Boundaries
Over the five summers of Lyndon B. Johnson's presidency, the nation witnessed more than 250 incidents of urban civil disorder. The violence—termed riots by policy makers, journalists, and the public—swept American cities and resulted in the deaths of more than two hundred black Americans, thirteen thousand injured civilians and officers, and the destruction of billions of dollars worth of property. Beginning with the killing of an unarmed black f…
Mass Incarceration at the Crossroads
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime
How did the land of the free become the home of the world’s largest prison system? Elizabeth Hinton traces the rise of mass incarceration to an ironic source: not the War on Drugs of the Reagan administration but the War on Crime that began during Johnson’s Great Society at the height of the civil rights era
Generations of Struggle
Author’s Response
I am deeply humbled by Simon Balto’s, Martha Biondi’s, Kevin Boyle’s, and Touré F. Reed’s thoughtful consideration of From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America. It is truly an honor to engage my work with four scholars who have influenced my own thinking and whom I deeply admire. And I am grateful to the Newberry Library and Labor: Studies in Working-Class History for bringing us into conversation.Th…
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime
How did the land of the free become the home of the world's largest prison system? Elizabeth Hinton traces the rise of mass incarceration to an ironic source: not the War on Drugs of the Reagan administration but the War on Crime that began during Johnson's Great Society at the height of the civil rights era
The Mass Criminalization of Black Americans
This review synthesizes the historical literature on the criminalization and incarceration of black Americans for an interdisciplinary audience. Drawing on key insights from new histories in the field of American carceral studies, we trace the multifaceted ways in which policymakers and officials at all levels of government have used criminal law, policing, and imprisonment as proxies for exerting social control in predominantly black communities…
The Last Great Battle of the West”
This book was not reviewed by the AHR upon its original publication and its review now is part of the journal’s reckoning with racist aspects of its work and influence. In the aftermath of the unprecedented mass mobilization for racial justice in the summer of 2020, an emerging national dialogue moved corporations, media outlets, nonprofit organizations, and public institutions to consider their responsibility in perpetuating inequality. The AHA …
Roundtable
To begin this special issue on the Black 1980s, we asked some of the leading thinkers in the area of post–Civil Rights era Black politics, culture, and society to help us to wrestle with issues of chronology, historiography, and the complicated connections between African Americans and the Black world in this crucial decade. In particular, we wanted to begin a conversation about how we define the Black 1980s and what impact focusing on the period…
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Criminology (7 works) · Law (7 works) · History (6 works) · Race, History, and American Society (6 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (5 works) · Mass incarceration (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Prison (4 works)