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Elizabeth Hinton

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Elizabeth Kai Hinton
Born (1983-06-26) June 26, 1983 (age 41)
Ann Arbor, Michigan, US
AwardsRalph Waldo Emerson Award, Phi Beta Kappa Society, Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, Carnegie Corporation
Academic background
EducationNew York University (B.A., 2005)
Columbia University (M.A., 2007; M.Phil, 2008; Ph.D., 2013)
Doctoral advisorEric Foner
Other advisorsHeather Ann Thompson[1]
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
Sub-disciplineAfrican and African American Studies
InstitutionsHarvard University
Yale University
Websitehttps://law.yale.edu/elizabeth-k-hinton

Elizabeth Kai Hinton (born June 26, 1983) is an American historian. She is Professor of History, African American Studies, and Law at Yale University and Yale Law School.[2][3] Her research focuses on the persistence of poverty and racial inequality in the twentieth-century United States. Hinton was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2022.[4]

Life

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Hinton was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan to her parents, Ann Pearlman, a psychotherapist and writer, and Alfred Hinton, a retired art professor at the University of Michigan.[5] She grew up in Ann Arbor but spent time in Saginaw, an hour north of the city. Her paternal grandfather was recruited by General Motors to leave the south for the north to work in a factory. As Saginaw declined, Hinton recalled the impact that drugs and unemployment had on her cousins who were often in and out of prison. That experience went on to influence her academic career.[6]

She received her B.A. in Historical Sociology from New York University's Gallatin School in 2005.[6] Hinton completed a Ph.D. in United States History at Columbia University in 2013.[3] Hinton divorced her first husband in 2017. She is remarried and lives in New Haven with her current husband and their two children.

Career

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Before joining the Yale Faculty she was a John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences in the Departments of History and African and African American Studies at Harvard University, and a Postdoctoral Scholar in the University of Michigan Society of Fellows.[7]

She has contributed articles and op-ed pieces to periodicals including The Journal of American History, the Journal of Urban History, The New York Times,[8] and the Los Angeles Times.[3][9]

Hinton's 2016 book From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime examines the history and modern-day issues in regard to the intertwined relationship between crime and poverty. She argues that this relationship goes farther back than one would think, such as anti-delinquency acts, the "War on Poverty" and "War on Crime" in the Johnson administration, and the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974.[10]

Her latest book, America on Fire, examines the social and political history of localized uprisings, riots, and protests around issues of police violence in minor and major cities across the United States.[11]

Hinton served as PhD advisor for poet and scholar Jackie Wang.[12]

Works

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  • America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s, New York: Liveright, 2021. ISBN 9781631498909
  • From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2016. ISBN 9780674979826, OCLC 1007099147[13][14][15][16][17]
  • Co-edited with Manning Marable, The New Black History: Revisiting the Second Reconstruction, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. ISBN 9781403977779[3]

References

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  1. ^ "Color and Incarceration". 8 August 2019. Archived from the original on 27 August 2022. Retrieved 20 September 2022.
  2. ^ Cummings, Mike (2020-09-16). "The new faces of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences". Yale News. Archived from the original on 2020-09-25. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
  3. ^ a b c d "Elizabeth Kai Hinton". Contemporary Authors Online. Farmington Hills, Michigan: Gale, 2017. Retrieved via Biography in Context database, 2018-03-17.
  4. ^ "The American Philosophical Society Welcomes New Members for 2022". Archived from the original on 2022-05-27. Retrieved 2022-09-20.
  5. ^ Schuessler, Jennifer (12 May 2021). "Unearthing the Roots of Black Rebellion". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 17 May 2021. Retrieved 20 September 2022.
  6. ^ a b Gibson, Lydialyle (2019-08-08). "Historian Elizabeth Hinton: a profile | Harvard Magazine". www.harvardmagazine.com. Retrieved 2025-03-13.
  7. ^ "Elizabeth Hinton". history.fas.harvard.edu. Archived from the original on 2018-01-10. Retrieved 2018-01-23.
  8. ^ Hinton, Elizabeth (2017-07-26). "Three New Books Discuss How to Confront and Reform Racist Policing". The New York Times. nytimes.com. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 2018-01-24. Retrieved 2018-01-23.
  9. ^ Hinton, Elizabeth (2016-07-15). "How not to handle protests? Look to the 1960s". Los Angeles Times. latimes.com. Archived from the original on 2018-01-24. Retrieved 2018-01-23.
  10. ^ "'From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime,' by Elizabeth Hinton". The New York Times. 2016-05-29. Archived from the original on 2019-04-06. Retrieved 2019-01-05.
  11. ^ Schuessler, Jennifer (2021-05-12). "Unearthing the Roots of Black Rebellion". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2025-03-13.
  12. ^ Stallard, Natasha (23 May 2018). "Jackie Wang". Tank Magazine. Retrieved 22 October 2022.
  13. ^ Perry, Imani (2016-05-27). "'From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime,' by Elizabeth Hinton". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 2018-01-24. Retrieved 2018-01-23.
  14. ^ Thrasher, Steven W. (2016-04-19). "From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime review – disturbing history". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 2018-01-24. Retrieved 2018-01-23.
  15. ^ Kumar, Priyanka (2016-09-24). "Turn Left or Get Shot". Los Angeles Review of Books. lareviewofbooks.org. Archived from the original on 2018-01-24. Retrieved 2018-01-23.
  16. ^ Hernández, Kelly Lytle (2016-10-10). "How the Government Built a Trap for Black Youth". Boston Review. Archived from the original on 2018-01-24. Retrieved 2018-01-23.
  17. ^ "Elizabeth Hinton has been awarded the Phi Beta Kappa 2017 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award". Harvard University | History Department. October 3, 2017. Archived from the original on December 12, 2023. Retrieved December 12, 2023.
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