The New Jim Crow
About This Book
Published in 2010, this work exposes a discriminatory system that has imprisoned African-Americans on an unprecedented scale. Through the War on Drugs and a supposedly race-neutral justice system, the United States has sustained racial inequality through implicit biases in law enforcement, prosecution, and punishment.
Who Should Read This?
- People committed to understanding racial justice in America
- Readers interested in how social systems perpetuate inequality
- Those seeking to comprehend institutional racism in criminal justice
- Citizens wanting to examine the real costs of the War on Drugs
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