Book #51 of 2022: The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times Magazine This volume is an expansion of the original New York Times Magazine article that was published to honor the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans to Virginia, highlighting American history through …
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Book Review: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
Book #97 of 2017: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander A truly stunning work of scholarship, describing how the current U.S. program of mass incarceration – and the War on Drugs that feeds it – systematically oppresses people of color in similar ways to the Jim Crow …
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