Mitchell S. Jackson

Mitchell S. Jackson’s highly acclaimed and award-wining first book The Residue Years explores his hometown of Portland, OR, the community, his family and early life.  Jackson’s newest work is Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family, a hybrid nonfiction—part essay, part memoir, part history—which serves as a cultural critique of the racial history of Oregon, American whiteness, mass incarceration, sex work, violence, and broken families—phenomena of which Jackson is intimately familiar—and ultimately presents a microcosm of the forces blighting the lives of untold disenfranchised Americans. 

Event: Keynote Conversation: Revising a Life in the Turbulent Age of Mass Incarceration