Christian Parenti
FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 2009
12PM - 3PM
New Museum, 235 Bowery, New York, NY
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Christian Parenti is a correspondent for The Nation and has also written for Fortune, Playboy, Mother Jones, and the Brooklyn Rail. He is author of The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq (New Press, 2004), which received rave reviews such as this one from the San Francisco Bay Guardian: “When…historians of tomorrow start writing, they will doubtless have copies of The Freedom close at hand.” Parenti’s two previous books are The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America from Slavery to the War on Terror, (Basic Books, 2003) and Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis, (Verso, 2000). Parenti has a PhD in sociology from the London School of Economics. He has been a Soros Senior Justice fellow and a Ford Foundation Fellow at the CUNY Graduate School's Center for Place, Culture, and Politics.
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Christian Parenti at The Nation
