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Rethinking the American Prison Movement (Book)

Toussaint Losier's research focuses on grassroots responses to the postwar emergence of mass incarceration in Chicago. He teaches courses on African American History, Black Politics, Criminal Justice policy, and transnational social movements. 

Losier's writing has been published in Souls, Radical History Review, The Journal of Urban History, Against the Current, and Left Turn Magazine. He is co-author of Rethinking the American Prison Movement with Dan Berger and preparing a book manuscript titled, War for the City: Black Chicago and the Rise of the Carceral State.

Mass Incarceration

Grassroots Responses to Mass Incarceration

Criminal Justice Policy

Incarceration and Racial Disparity

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Reopening city’s mental health clinics will be an important early test for Mayor Brandon Johnson

Storming the Gates: Fifty Years After the Attica Prison Uprising

Dan Berger and Toussaint Losier On The American Prisoner Movement

Associate Professor in the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies

A lecture given to the Department of History, Florida State University, by Dr. Toussaint Losier on February 11, 2021.

Dr. Toussaint Losier, "Black Chicago and the Rise of the Carceral State."

Addressing policing in communities of color and contemporary penal policy, while grappling with the complex question of what policing and punishment should look like going forward. Panelists: Roy Austin Partner, Harris, Wiltshire & Grannis LLP, former Deputy Assistant to President Barack Obama for the Office of Urban Affairs, Justice & Opportunity; Toussaint Losier - Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts - Amherst College of Humanities & Fine Arts, W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies; Tracey Maclin Professor of Law & Joseph Lipsitt Faculty Research Scholar, Boston University School of Law; Mark Osler Professor and Robert and Marion Short Distinguished Chair in Law, University of St. Thomas School of Law.

MLK50 Symposium DAY 1: Where Do We Go from Here?: CRIMINAL JUSTICE

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Featured Speakers: Dr. Heather Ann Thompson, Professor of History, Department of Afro-American and African Studies, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor; and Author of “Blood In The Water - The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy”.

(Moderator) Dr. Toussaint Losier, Assistant Professor, W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

This video clip was recorded on September 17, 2016 during the Liberation Film Series: “The 45th  Anniversary of the Attica Prison Murders” Event, featuring Dr. Heather Ann Thompson (Author of “Blood In The Water - The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy” and Associate Professor, University of Michigan in Ann Arbor) and Dr. Toussaint Losier (Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts-Amherst), at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, General Motors Theater, 315 East Warren Avenue, Detroit, MI.

For more information, please visit:
http://heatherannthompson.com/
http://www.umass.edu/afroam/faculty/Losier.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WlRQLG0jsA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMjQCAjKLiw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExZB5NVoaqs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4vz47WgTfk
http://stream.aljazeera.com/story/201609262257-0025288 
https://www.thenation.com/article/understanding-the-legacy-of-the-attica-prison-uprising/
http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/Book-Reviews/2016/0926/Blood-in-the-Water-does-a-magnificent-job-of-rewriting-the-Attica-story
https://www.c-span.org/video/?414513-2/heather-ann-thompson-discusses-blood-water
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCE9aij_5FM-nydVd_b01rfA
http://www.blackpast.org/aah/attica-prison-riot-1971
http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/mssc/attica/atticareport.pdf
https://www.amazon.com/Time-Die-Attica-Prison-Revolt/dp/1608462153/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1475369604&sr=8-1&keywords=tom+wicker
http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/rodneyjackson.html
http://www.blackclassicbooks.com/9780933121232/
http://www.nytimes.com/topic/subject/attica-inmate-revolt-1971
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/attica-prison-riot-ends
http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/mssc/attica/
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/09/14/attica-anniversary-pain/90343784/
http://www.theatlantic.com/author/heather-ann-thompson/
http://www.oxy.edu/events/toussaint-losier-black-power-police-brutality-chicago
http://www.oxy.edu/events?page=358

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