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ABOUT
Reuben Jonathan Miller (born 1976) is an American writer, sociologist, criminologist and social worker. He teaches at the University of Chicago in the Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice and in the Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity, and is a research professor at the American Bar Foundation. (Wikipedia)
His first book, Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration, is based on 15 years of research and practice with currently and formerly incarcerated men, women, their families, partners, and friends in Chicago, Detroit, and cities across the United States. It won a pile of awards — including the 2023 Michael J. Hindelang Award from the American Society of Criminology, the 2022 Herbert Jacob Book Prize from the Law and Society Association, and two PROSE Awards. It was also a finalist for an LA Times Book Prize and the PEN America John Kenneth Galbraith Award. (University of Chicago Crown School, Uchicago)
His TED talk on "radical hospitality" and the formerly incarcerated has been viewed over 1 million times. (Lyceum Agency)
He was awarded a 2022 MacArthur Fellowship — the "genius grant" — receiving $800,000 over five years. University of Chicago News
His origin story
Miller began his career as a volunteer chaplain at the Cook County Jail, and draws on his own experience as the son and brother of incarcerated men. (Wikipedia)
Reuben's appeared on NPR's Fresh Air, Marketplace, Amanpour & Co., and written for Time and Politico. He's a represented speaker through the Lyceum Agency. (Lyceumagency)
Halfway Home
Each year, more than half a million Americans are released from prison and join a population of twenty million people who live with a felony record.
Reuben Miller, a chaplain at the Cook County Jail in Chicago and now a sociologist studying mass incarceration, spent years alongside prisoners, ex-prisoners, their friends, and their families to understand the lifelong burden that even a single arrest can entail. What his work revealed is a simple, if overlooked truth: life after incarceration is its own form of prison. The idea that one can serve their debt and return to life as a full-fledge member of society is one of America’s most nefarious myths. Recently released individuals are faced with jobs that are off-limits, apartments that cannot be occupied and votes that cannot be cast.
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Discussion of Halfway Home on NPR's Fresh Air
Forthcoming Book: Another World
Another World uses my grandmother’s legacy and my original researchto tie together
regional,national, andinternational histories of freedom making, a global
phenomenon. There are works thathave captured readers’ imaginations by weaving
together a reckoning,a family history,and a personal narrative. For instance, The
Warmth of Other Sunsby Isabel Wilkerson is an intimate yet sweepingportrait ofthe
Great Migration. Saidiya Hartman’s Lose Your Mother masterfully explores
estrangement from one’s people and one’spast through the Atlantic slave trade. Clint
Smith’s How the Word Is Passed braids together the author’s lineage, collective
memory,and selective amnesia of slavery in America. And, Tiya Miles’s All That She
Carried contends with the limited archives of slavery and what we know of the enslaved
to reconstructa life. Another World sits comfortably among these titles, but it is the
first touse rigorous social science alongside family history, the author’s journey of
discovery across three continents,and nearly three hundred years to trace the global
legacy of freedom making, anambitious scope.
Like Wilkerson’s most recent book, Caste, a core construct sits at the center of this
book:emancipation. This leads to a final way in which Another World is unique: By
attending to how people with the most to lose made freedom, it stands in opposition to
explorations of oppression with lived insight into how we might yet construct a more
just and welcoming world.
Sunsby Isabel Wilkerson
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