States of Incarceration Explores Roots of National Issue in Local Communities
This comprehensive public history project aims to serve as a national public reckoning with mass incarceration by viewing the issue through local communities.
This comprehensive public history project aims to serve as a national public reckoning with mass incarceration by viewing the issue through local communities.
In the summer of 2012, middle school students in a leadership training program hosted by the advocacy group Asian Americans United in Philadelphia read about local resistance to plans to locate a new Phillies stadium in Chinatown a decade earlier. They then studied a map of the neighborhood and considered how siting the stadium there might have had different meanings for different groups – people who lived in Chinatown, people who worked there, local government, businesses and real estate companies, and the police, for example.