Please join us for the Sociology Colloquium with Dr. Beth Richie  on April 8, 2022 at 10:30 am in the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Community Studies Center, Room 115. She will deliver her talk titled “Anti-Violence Scholarship and Racial Justice Activism: Reflections on Abolition Feminism.” For a preview, watch her interview on Democracy Now during which she, Angela Davis, and Gina Dent discuss their recently-released book, Abolition. Feminism. Now.

Dr. Beth Richie is Head of the Department of Criminology, Law and Justice and Distinguished Professor of Black Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her work focuses on Black feminism and gender violence, race and criminal justice policy, and the social dynamics of sexuality, prison abolition, and grassroots organizations in African American Communities. She is the author of several books, including the recently published, Abolition. Feminism. Now., as well as Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence and America’s Prison Nation and Compelled to Crime: The Gender Entrapment of Black Battered Women.