What is carceral apartheid? How is it used to harm marginalized communities?
In this series on healthcare and social disparities, Dr. Jill Wener, a board-certified Internal Medicine specialist, anti-racism educator, meditation expert, and tapping practitioner, interviews experts and gives her own insights into multiple fields relating to social justice and anti-racism. In this episode, Jill interviews Dr. Brittany Friedman, author of Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons. They had a conversation about adjustment centers and how they are used by the government to control people with marginalized identities. They also talked about ways that Dr. Friedman cares for herself while doing research on such difficult topics.
Dr. Brittany Friedman is a sociologist, cultural & political theorist, author, and intuitive herbalist. She is an expert on cover-ups, politics, and the dark side of institutions. Dr. Friedman holds a PhD in Sociology from Northwestern University and was appointed as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Southern California, where she received the 2024 Raubenheimer Outstanding Junior Faculty Award. She is also a ‘23-24 American Association of University Women faculty postdoc and an Affiliated Scholar of the American Bar Foundation.
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