Interviews/Press
Radio Interviews
The Daily Briefing
KPFK FM
Los Angeles: 90.7 fm
Thur, 03/18/2010
Robert Perkinson discusses Texas Tough with KPFK’s Ian Masters.
The Incarcerated Society
The Jeff Farias Show
Video
Robert Perkinson lecturing on “American Race Relations in the Age of Obama” at Ewha Woman’s University, Seoul, Korea on November 19, 2008.
Interviews
Texas Tough: An Interview with Robert Perkinson
March 31, 2010 | by Adam Culbreath
A nation’s journey from slavery to prisons
By Anna Mundow, Globe Correspondent | March 21, 2010
Texas Monthly, March 2010
In Texas Tough, the Yale-trained historian looks at the explosion in modern America’s prison population. He finds the Texas penal system setting the pace in both the number of prisoners and the harsh conditions of their imprisonment, with the occasional surprisingly positive development.
Press Coverage
Author interview by Mike Shea in the Texas Monthly, March 2010.
Peter Monaghan, “Prison Studies,” Chronicle of Higher Education, November 1, 2009. (PDF)
Jonathan Cohn, “America’s Abu Ghraib’s,” New Republic, May 15, 2004. (PDF)
