Benjamin Weber writes about systemic racism and inequality, focusing on the criminal legal system, and about social movements seeking to broaden the meaning and experience of freedom.
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Coming Oct 3, 2023
AMERICAN PURGATORY:
Incarceration and empire
American Purgatory is a four-hundred-year reckoning with the colonial workings of the carceral state and resistance against it.
Scholar, educator, new media producer.
Benjamin Weber is an interdisciplinary scholar of African American History, Critical Carceral Studies, and Black Social and Political Thought. He received his PhD from Harvard University, and serves as Associate Professor of African American & African Studies at the University of California, Davis. He has been recognized for his teaching and multimedia work, including being named the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) Outstanding Teacher of the Year for the United States and winning an Omni Gold Award for The Calderwood U.S. History Series produced by WGBH Boston for PBS Learning Media.
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Benjamin Weber’s research, writing, and public engagement work has been supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, American Council of Learned Societies, National Endowment for the Humanities, Council on Library and Information Resources, Charles Warren Center for American History, and the W.E.B. DuBois Institute / Hutchins Center for African & African American Research.