Text Box: Brown Bag Lunch Series Center for Puerto Rican Studies Fall 2006 November 29th Eloisa Gordon-Mora Vice President, Government Affairs Safe Horizon Hunter College, Solarium Hunter East 1413 12-2:00pm The Prison of the Body: The Intersections of Child Maltreatment and State Controls in the Lives Poor Children of Color The soul is the prison of the body. Foucault Introduction This paper is part of a larger research project that seeks to problematize the way the child welfare system in New York City, which is notorious for its overrepresentation of poor children of color, is typically interpreted. Characteristically, discussions on the child welfare system-and particularly, as they refer to poor, black and Puerto Rican/Latino families-'-both, in New York City and the Island-in recent years? For more information on Centro Events, please visit http://centropr.org/events/index.html or call (212)772-5714. **************************************************************************************** If you wish to unsubscribe from CENTROEVENTS-L go to: http://hunter.listserv.cuny.edu/scriptshc/wa-hc.exe?SUBED1=centroevents-l&A=1 *****************************************************************************************