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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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Mariah Roze
Sep 14, 2018 rated it it was amazing
I'm speechless. EVERYONE should read this.

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"As the United States celebrates the nation's "triumph over race" with the election of Barack Obama, the majority of young black men in major American cities are locked behind bars or have been labeled felons for life. Although Jim Crow laws have been wiped off the books, an ast
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Ashley Jacobson
This is the best book I’ve read on social justice. I also think it will be easy to digest for anyone, whereas some people will be turned off about the tone of some other books that are more in your face. That’s not the fault of the author, but the fault of us, the readers, who hold some defensiveness.

This, however, does not hide anything, but rather does an amazing job of setting out the facts and showing us our history. It also shows us how to fix things and a place to focus our efforts. There
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