Naomi Murakawa

Naomi Murakawa is an American political scientist and associate professor of African-American studies at Princeton University. Along with Kent Eaton, she is also the co-chair of the 2017 American Political Science Association (APSA) Section 24 meeting.^[1] Murakawa received her B.A. in women’s studies from Columbia University, her M.Sc. in social policy from the London School of Economics, and her Ph.D. in political science from Yale University.^[2] She is known for her 2014 book, The First Civil Right, which contends that American liberals are just as responsible for mass incarceration in the United States as conservatives are.^[3][4][5] In 2015, Murakawa won the Michael Harrington Book Award from APSA for this book.^[6]

Selected publications

• Murakawa, Naomi (2016). The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199892785.
• Beckett, Katherine; N. Murakawa (2012). "Mapping the shadow carceral state: Toward an institutionally capacious approach to punishment". Theoretical Criminology. 16 (2): 221–44. doi:10.1177/1362480612442113.
• Murakawa, Naomi; K. Beckett (2010). "The Penology of Racial Innocence: The Erasure of Racism in the Study and Practice of Punishment". Law & Society Review. 44 (3–4): 695–730. doi:10.1111/j.1540-5893.2010.00420.x.

See also

• Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

References

External links

• Murakawa's faculty page
• Behind the News interview with Doug Henwood