CRSP Speaker Recounts How War on Drugs Affects Poor Urban African Americans

University of Wisconsin-Madison Sociology Professor Alice Goffman, who lived in a largely black neighborhood on the edge of Philadelphia, recounted her experiences there as part of the CRSP Speaker Series. Law enforcement’s war on drugs, Goffman observed,  has turned black men in America’s poorer urban neighborhoods into too-frequent targets for arrest today, paralleling “earlier systems of racial oppression, like slavery and Jim Crow." Read more about her experiences in the University Times.