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Jun 28, 2020
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Even 10 years after its original publication this is still a very important book. Alexander analyzes the impact of law enforcement and mass incarceration in this age of "colorblindness" and "post-racial society" in the USA. The 10th anniversary edition has a long intro by the author discussing what has and hasn't changed in the past 10 years.
Just last week, I read The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power, which is on a similar topic but focused on Canada.
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Just last week, I read The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power, which is on a similar topic but focused on Canada.
Highly recommend! ...more
Even though I was aware of many of these policies, I'd never seen them laid out together to show just how stacked the cards are.
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Required reading if you want the hard proof that our system of mass incarceration is racist. What laws we choose to enforce and how we enforce them and the statistics to back it all up results in the unmistakable conclusion that law and order doesn’t just disproportionately target POC. Actually that is just a means to and end: systemically disenfranchising POC to maintain the traditional arrangement of political, social, and financial capital along racial lines. While that statement seems far ou
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The extent to which the Supreme Court has refused any consideration of systemic bias to uphold "business as usual" is shocking and depressing. In my hometown of Seattle, the City Council has determined that landlords may not run criminal background checks on potential tenants. As a landlord, that concerned me, but after reading this book, I get it. It would be one thing if rules and laws were applied across the board, but they are not.
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This book is a difficult but necessary one, even though it came about almost a decade ago it still feels prescient and like it could’ve been written yesterday. Not much has changed unfortunately. This is an important book to understand the effects of mass incarceration on black Americans.
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