Holding Up Half The Sky: Women’s Voices in China
Tuesday, October 29, 2002
Editor Marc Mauer and writer Judith Greene critique America’s current approach to criminal justice, Invisible Punishment. Sociologist Jennifer Lee disputes the assumption that racial tensions define relationships between inner city merchants and customers. In her book Civility in the City she claims that day-to-day interactions are actually quite civil and harmonious. Plus novelist Sandra Cisneros discusses her book Carmelo on a
Mexican American family’s road trip from Chicago to Mexico City. And Chinese radio broadcaster Xinran shares narrations from various women about their experiences during and after the Cultural Revolution.
Marc Mauer and Judith Greene
Editor Marc Mauer and contributor Judith Greene critique America’s current approach to criminal justice, Invisible Punishment: The Collateral Consequences of Mass Imprisonment.
Jennifer Lee
Sociologist Jennifer Lee disputes the assumption that racial tensions define relationships between inner city merchants and customers. She claims that day-to-day interactions are actually quite civil and harmonious, Civility in the City: Blacks, Jews, and Koreans in Urban America.
Sandra Cisneros
Novelist Sandra Cisneros, on a Mexican American family’s road trip from Chicago to Mexico City, Caramelo. Read an excerpt in the Reading Room.
Xinran
Chinese radio broadcaster Xinran shares narrations from various women about their experiences during and after the Cultural Revolution, The Good Women of China.
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