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This is a very important accompaniment for The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. Especially in the current climate (2020) of people trying to understand how to stop incidents like the George Floyd killing when one of the four policemen was black. The mass incarceration system is not a simple story that can be explained entirely by white supremacy. Its establishment was, according to this book, enthusiastically demanded by black leaders. We need to rethink our entire
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