Freedom of Speech and the Press

Biology 1B, 001 - Spring 2015 General Biology - Alan Shabel, George Roderick, Lewis J Feldman Creative Commons 3.0: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs

Public Health 241, 001 - Spring 2014 Creative Commons 3.0: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs

As U.S. novelists, poets, painters, and scholars continue to remind us, our historical moment is shaped by the haunting presence of racial slavery—a past that, despite postracial prophecy, refuses to pass away. The Constitutional Amendments codified under Reconstruction abolished slavery, except as punishment for a crime; codified birthright citizenship, equal protection, and due process; and expanded access to the vote. Yet, as this talk demonstrates, the contemporary culture of incarceration reveals how all three of these domains remain profoundly vexed sites of struggle over the meaning of freedom. Featured speaker: Keith P. Feldman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley, and is affiliated with the Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory and Women, Gender, and Sexuality.