{"id":13540,"date":"2023-09-27T17:00:13","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T21:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/?p=13540"},"modified":"2024-08-01T15:46:47","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T15:46:47","slug":"portrait-of-mass-incarceration-exhibit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/portrait-of-mass-incarceration-exhibit\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Portrait of Mass Incarceration&#8221; Exhibit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1144\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2023\/09\/MAJ_for-banner-image-scaled-1.jpeg\" alt=\"exhibit poster with title, dates, and image of Abu-Jamal on a French stamp\" class=\"wp-image-13543\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2023\/09\/MAJ_for-banner-image-scaled-1.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2023\/09\/MAJ_for-banner-image-scaled-1-300x134.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2023\/09\/MAJ_for-banner-image-scaled-1-1024x458.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\"><em>Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Portrait of Mass Incarceration<\/em> exhibit<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><br><strong>Opening: Thursday, September 28, 2023 at 4:30 p.m.<br>Runs through July 19, 2024<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/brown.edu\/Facilities\/Facilities_Management\/maps\/index.php#building\/JHAYLIB\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/brown.edu\/Facilities\/Facilities_Management\/maps\/index.php#building\/JHAYLIB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">John Hay Library<\/a>, 20 Prospect St., Providence RI<br><a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/hay\/directions.php#johnhay\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/hay\/directions.php#johnhay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hours<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mumia Abu-Jamal is a poet, writer, musician, scholar, historian, archivist, public radio producer, journalist, painter, and public intellectual, who has been incarcerated for 40-plus years. His story, collections, and writings serve as one of the anchors for the <em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/hay\/collectionpolicy\/voices-of-mass-incarceration\/index.php#start\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/hay\/collectionpolicy\/voices-of-mass-incarceration\/index.php#start\" target=\"_blank\">Voices of Mass Incarceration in the United States<\/a><\/em> collections at the John Hay Library. In viewing this exhibition, you are invited to see Mumia Abu-Jamal through the prodigious output of his archival collection \u2014 totaling more than 80 boxes and amassed over nearly 40 years of incarceration.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By presenting items from Mumia Abu-Jamal\u2019s life in prison alongside broader information and objects related to mass incarceration, this exhibition offers a unique opportunity to examine sites and systems of incarceration through both a deeply personal lens and from a holistic perspective. In doing so, it paints a comprehensive portrait of the vast impact the carceral state has had on the human experience in the United States, where two million individuals are currently incarcerated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Portrait of Mass Incarceration exhibit Opening: Thursday, September 28, 2023 at 4:30 p.m.Runs through July 19, 2024John Hay Library, 20 Prospect St., Providence RIHours Mumia Abu-Jamal is a poet, writer, musician, scholar, historian, archivist, public radio producer, journalist, painter, and public intellectual, who has been incarcerated for 40-plus years. His story, collections, <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/portrait-of-mass-incarceration-exhibit\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  &#8220;Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Portrait of Mass Incarceration&#8221; Exhibit<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,5,34,35,8,155,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements-special-collections","category-exhibits-events","category-exhibits-events-special-collections","category-general-interest","category-hay","category-home-page","category-special-collections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13540"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16029,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13540\/revisions\/16029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}