Black History Month Lecture: Dr. Michael Owens, "The Civic Consequences of 'The New Jim Crow' for Black America" | Department of History

Black History Month Lecture: Dr. Michael Owens, "The Civic Consequences of 'The New Jim Crow' for Black America"

Event Information
GAB 105
Event Date: 
Monday, February 9, 2015 - 05:30

Monday, February 9, 2015
5:30 to 7 pm @ GAB Room 105
Michael Leo Owens, Ph.D. (2001) State University of New York at Albany, specializes in urban politics; state and local politics; politi-cal penology; governance and public policy processes; religion and politics; and African American politics. Owens is an associate of Emory's Office of University-Community Partnerships and Center for the Study of Law and Religion and serves on the boards of the National Housing Institute, Urban Affairs Association, APSA Urban Poli-tics Section, and Urban Affairs Review. Author of God and Government in the Ghetto: The Politics of Church-State Collaboration in Black Ameri-ca (University of Chicago Press, 2007), his current book project is Prison-ers of Democracy, a study of the politics, policies, and attitudes that di-minish the citizenship of felons in the United States.
"The Civic Consequences of‘The New Jim Crow’
for Black America"
Dr. Michael Leo Owens
Emory University
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