Elizabeth Hinton

Elizabeth Hinton is assistant professor of history and African and African American studies at Harvard University. She is the author of From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America (Harvard University Press),

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Elizabeth Hinton’s celebrated new book, From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime (Harvard, 2016) comes at an electric political moment. “I hope,” says Hinton, “that my research…

Nov 8, 2016 / 5 Books / Elizabeth Hinton

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