{"id":536,"date":"2020-08-27T14:00:54","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T18:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/abolition1313\/?p=536"},"modified":"2020-09-22T16:44:35","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T20:44:35","slug":"dennis-childs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/abolition1313\/dennis-childs\/","title":{"rendered":"Dennis Childs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-537 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/abolition1313\/files\/2020\/08\/Dennis-Childs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"250\" \/>Dennis Childs is Associate Professor of African American Literature and an affiliate faculty member of the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of\u00a0<i>Slaves of the State: Black Incarceration from the Chain Gang to the Penitentiary<\/i>, a work that deals with the connections between chattel slavery and prison slavery from the late nineteenth century through the prison industrial complex. As a scholar-activist, he has worked with various social justice organizations including the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, All of Us or None, and the Chicano Mexicano Prison Project.\u00a0He is faculty advisor for Students Against Mass Incarceration (SAMI UCSD)&#8211;a student run prison abolitionist organization.\u00a0He also serves as Community Advisory Board member for\u00a0Critical\u00a0Resistance, a national organization working toward the abolition of the prison industrial complex.\u00a0In 2015, he was a member of the first ever prisoner solidarity delegation from the US to Palestine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dennis Childs is Associate Professor of African American Literature and an affiliate faculty member of the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of\u00a0Slaves of the State: Black Incarceration from the Chain&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/abolition1313\/dennis-childs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2322,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38950,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guests-4-13","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/abolition1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/abolition1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/abolition1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/abolition1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2322"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/abolition1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/abolition1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/abolition1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/abolition1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/abolition1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}