02/14/2024
Book Talk - Invisible Mothers: Unseen Yet Hypervisible after Incarceration
Monday, March 4 | 12 - 1 PM | Zoom | RSVP: https://cglink.me/2dA/r2266716
Join the Yale African American Affinity Group Social Justice Committee, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, and Yale Women Faculty Forum (WFF) for a conversation with Janet Garcia-Hallett about her book Invisible Mothers: Unseen Yet Hypervisible after Incarceration. Register by Friday, February 16th for your chance to win a free copy of the book!
Drawing on interviews conducted throughout New York City, Black feminist criminologist Janet Garcia-Hallett shares the traditionally silenced voices of formerly incarcerated mothers of color and exposes the difficult realities they face when reentering the community and navigating motherhood. Patriarchy, misogyny, and systemic racism marginalize and criminalize these mothers, pushing them into the grasp of penal control and forcing them to live in a state of disempowerment and hypersurveillance after imprisonment.