Thompson, Heather Ann, 1963-

LC control no.	nr 95035788
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Thompson, Heather Ann, 1963- *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Birth date	1963-08-17
Affiliation	University of Michigan
Profession or occupation	Historians
Found in	The politics of labor, race, and liberalism in the auto plants and the Motor City, 1995: t.p. (Heather Ann Thompson) Info. from Princeton University Archives, 9-22-95 (Thompson, Heather Ann, b. 8-17-63) Blood in the water, 2016: eCIP (Heather Ann Thompson) data view screen (teaches history at the University of Michigan; has written numerous popular as well as scholarly articles on the history of mass incarceration as well as its current impact, including pieces for The New York Times, The Atlantic, Salon, Dissent, New Labor Forum, and The Huffington Post; recently served on a National Academy of Sciences blue-ribbon panel that studied the causes and consequences of mass incarceration in the United States; the author of Whose Detroit: Politics, Labor and Race in a Modern American City and editor of Speaking Out: Protest and Activism in the 1960s and 1970s; has consulted on several documentary films, including Criminal Injustice at Attica; regularly speaks to radio and print journalists about issues related to policing, civil rights, urban crisis, and prisons)
Associated language	eng