Elizabeth Hinton (born June 26, 1983) is an American historian. She is Professor of History, African American Studies, and Law at
Yale University and
Yale Law School.[2][3] Her research focuses on the persistence of poverty and racial inequality in the twentieth-century United States. Hinton was elected to the
American Philosophical Society in 2022.[4]
Life
Born in
Ann Arbor, Michigan[5] Hinton completed a Ph.D. in United States History at
Columbia University in 2013.[3] Before joining the Yale Faculty she was a John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences in the Departments of History and African and African American Studies at
Harvard University, and a Postdoctoral Scholar in the
University of Michigan Society of Fellows.[6] Hinton divorced her first husband in 2017. She is remarried and lives in New Haven with her current husband and their two children.
Hinton's 2016 book From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime examines the history and modern-day issues in regard to the intertwined relationship between crime and poverty. She argues that this relationship goes farther back than one would think, such as anti-delinquency acts, the "
War on Poverty" and "
War on Crime" in the
Johnson administration, and the
Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974.[9]
Hinton served as PhD advisor for poet and scholar
Jackie Wang.[10]
Works
America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s, New York: Liveright, 2021.
ISBN9781631498909
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"Turn Left or Get Shot". Los Angeles Review of Books. lareviewofbooks.org.
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