The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of ColorblindnessThe New Press, 2012 - 312 sayfa This book seeks to analyze the issue of race in America after the election of Barack Obama. For the author, the U.S. criminal justice system functions can act as a contemporary system of racial control, even as it adheres to the principle of color blindness. |
İçindekiler
Introduction | 1 |
1 The Rebirth of Caste | 20 |
2 The Lockdown | 59 |
3 The Color of Justice | 97 |
4 The Cruel Hand | 140 |
5 The New Jim Crow | 178 |
6 The Fire This Time | 221 |
Notes | 263 |
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Michelle Alexander Sınırlı önizleme - 2020 |
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