Condemned: How America’s Courts and Prisons Terrorized Black Children

Event Description

Please join us for a PHH Noted Scholar Lecture by Dr. Crystal Webster, Associate Professor, Department of History, where she will speak about her PHH Faculty Fellowship project, “Condemned: How America’s Courts and Prisons Terrorized Black Children”.

Presenter: Dr. Crystal Webster (Department of History)
Introduction: Dr. Kimberly Bain (Department of English Language & Literatures)

Abstract: Condemned, is a public-facing book about the origins of the American justice system from its founding to today, from the perspective of the population who suffered the most injustice: Black children who have been nearly forgotten in historical memory. This talk will focus on several key stories and court cases that illuminate one groundbreaking truth: the history of racism in American criminal justice is rooted in the ruthless punishment of Black children.

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Speaker

Dr. Crystal Webster is Associate Professor of History at the University of British Columbia. She teaches and researches early African American history with a focus on Black children. Her first book, Beyond the Boundaries of Childhood, was published June 2021 with the University of North Carolina Press and won the Biennial First Book Award from the Library Company of Philadelphia. Her second book, Condemned, will be published with The New Press.