Auditing Black Pain: The Affective Economy of the Prison Industrial Complex
Thursday 10 March, 2016
7pm, $5
Artists Space, Books and Talks
55 Walker Street
"Despite the routine racial violence of police, courts, and prisons, state violence against black bodies is condemned only in terms of its traceability to white minds—white fear, white implicit bias, white lack of empathy. Translating black pain into white affective failure invites reforms to 'humanize' the criminal justice system with more community policing, more empathy training, more diverse personnel. These reforms reconsolidate carceral power, institutionalizing white privilege that masquerades as white compassion." – Naomi Murakawa
In conjunction with Cameron Rowland's exhibition 91020000, Artists Space presents a talk by Naomi Murakawa, Associate Professor in the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University. Murakawa is the author of The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America.