The Guardian quoted Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on Rep. Adam Schiff’s record in California as a leading force behind mass incarceration. “The country knows Schiff as sort of an icon. Here in California, we know him as someone who was, in many ways, one of the chief Read more…
The Appeal featured an op-ed by Jody Armour of the USC Gould School and he was also quoted in The Intercept on why choosing Rep. Adam Schiff to be the next attorney general of California would be a mistake. “In California, we know Adam Schiff as a chief architect of Read more…
NBC News Los Angeles affiliate KNBC-TV featured Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on the selection of Sen. Kamala Harris as Joe Biden’s running mate. “It’s an extraordinary selection in a lot of ways. It’s powerfully historic, of course, and symbolic. On the other hand, maybe people on the Read more…
The US has used the War on drugs to create a racial caste system: a successor to the Jim Crow days we thought we left behind. The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander is one of the most important American books in the last decade. Alexander systematically explores the policy changes from the days of Nixon through the present – exploring how each decision has created and allowed a system which criminalizes blackness, brownness, otherness in way that both creates new racial biases and confirms them by incarcerating millions of young black and brown men (and to a lesser extent, black and brown women).
