Author Event: Charles R. Epp discusses his book “Pulled Over: How Police Stops Define Race and Citizenship”
Date and Time
Feb 17, 2015 5:00 pm
Location
Hyattsville
5331 Baltimore Ave, Hyattsville, Maryland, 20781
Feb 17, 2015 5:00 pm
Hyattsville
Join Busboys and Poets and Eastern Mennonite University as we welcome author Charles R. Epp to present his findings from his latest book Pulled Over: How Police Stops Define Race and Citizenship.
Charles R. Epp’s research focuses on law as an instrument of reform. He is the author of several books published by the University of Chicago Press such as The Rights Revolution: Lawyers, Activists, and Supreme Courts in Comparative Perspective, which won the C. Herman Pritchett Award of the American Political Science Association. Making Rights Real: Activists, Bureaucrats, and the Creation of the Legalistic State, which was named an Outstanding Academic Title by the American Library Association.Â
Books will be for sale the Busboys and Poets book store.
For more information on this event contact Kimberly Schmidt at kimberly.schmidt@emu.edu
This presentation is sponsored by the Jeremiah Nonviolence Network and the Washington Community Scholars' Center.
