BOOK PARTY: Health Rights are Civil Rights

Please join the Center for Place, Culture and Politics to celebrate the publication of Health Rights Are Civil Rights with author Jenna Loyd.  Karen Miller will make  a brief introduction to the book, followed by refeshments.

Monday September 22, 6:30-8:30 pm. Room 6112.

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http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/health-rights-are-civil-rights

 

Jenna M. Loyd is an assistant professor of Public Health Policy & Administration in the Zilber School of Public Health and member of the Urban Studies Program faculty at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. After completing her PhD in Geography at University of California, Berkeley, she held postdoctoral fellowships in the Humanities Center at Syracuse University, the Center for Place, Culture and Politics at the CUNY Graduate Center, and with the NSF-funded Island Detention Project led by Dr. Alison Mountz. Her first book Health Rights Are Civil Rights: Peace and Justice Activism in Los Angeles, 1963-1978 (2014, University of Minnesota Press) investigates everyday understandings of health and violence and people’s grassroots mobilizations for health and social justice. Her second area of research concerns the criminalization of migration and US immigration detention policy. She is the co-editor, with Matt Mitchelson and Andrew Burridge, of Beyond Walls and Cages: Prisons, Borders, and Global Crisis (2012, University of Georgia Press), which won the Association of Borderlands Studies Past Presidents’ Award in 2014. She and Alison Mountz are currently co-authoring a book on the late-Cold War history of the United States immigration detention system.

Karen Miller is Professor of History at LaGuardia Community College. Her book, Managing Inequality: Northern Racial Liberalism and Urban Politics in Interwar Detroit, is forthcoming from NYU press in December 2014. Her current project focuses on American imperialism and the transition to independence in the Philippines.

This event is sponsored by the Center for Place, Culture and Politics

 

 

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