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Nicole Fleetwood and Ruha Benjamin in Discussion

A Labyrinth and Library Livestream Event

Nicole Fleetwood discusses her new book “Art in the Age of Mass Incarcertion” with acclaimed scholar and critic Ruha Benjamin.

Nicole Fleetwood discusses her new book, which explores the inner lives and creative visions of men and women in America's prison system, with scholar and critic Ruha Benjamin via Crowdcast.

More than 2 million people are behind bars in the United States. Incarceration not only separates the imprisoned from their families and communities; it also exposes them to shocking levels of deprivation and abuse and subjects them to the arbitrary cruelties of the criminal justice system. Yet, as Fleetwood reveals, America's prisons are filled with art. 

Fleetwood is professor of American Studies and Art History at Rutgers University. She is the author of “On Racial Icons and of Troubling Vision.”  Benjamin is associate professor of African American Studies at Princeton University. She is the founder of the Just Data Lab and the author of “People's Science” and, most recently, of “Race after Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code.”