Mass Incarceration Black on Black Violence and Black Fathers

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Mass Incarceration Black on Black Violence and Black Fathers

A virtual workshop on the interdynamics of mass incarceration of black fathers and violence amongst African American youth.

By Aging People in Prison Human Rights Campaign

Date and time

Friday, December 30, 2022 · 3 - 4pm PST

Location

Online

About this event

LUNCH N LEARN SERIES

This virtual workshop in inspired by the alarming continuing surge of black on black violence by African American children/teens in urban cities across the nation and the 2015 New York Times Report 1.5 million Black Men Missing; which through methodology sheds light on two reasons; early/premature deaths and incarceration.

As a third of African American men were/are historically incarcerated in America and with 1 in 4 black men likely to be arrested/jail, this inevitably is a direct correlation to missing black fathers over decades; which has manifested into familial and communal violence thus replicating and continuing the cycle of historical trauma and incarcerated futures.

The New York Times report highlighted the top ten cities with the most missing black men, likewise over the next few months workshops will be given through an anthropological lens of historical/generational incarceration.

The virtual workshop will give recommendations such as: culturally applicable policy and communal-private-public collaborations that create ecosystems of mental/emotional healing and humanization.

References:

Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys Series; 1985- Jawanza Kunjufu

Black Men, Obsolete, Single and Dangerous?: The Afrikan American Family in Transition; 1991-Haki R. Madhubuti

Daddy Hunger; (film documentary) 2007- Ray Upchurch

The New Jim Crow; Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness; 2012- Michelle Alexander

Invisible Men: Mass Incarceration and the Myth of Black Progress; 2012- Becky Pettit

The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood; 2017- Tommy Curry

Black Women, Black Love: America's War on African American Marriage; 2020- Dianne M.

Stewart

Black Boys; (film documentary) 2020- Sonia Lawman and Malcolm Jenkins

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