Title |
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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Names |
Alexander, Michelle.
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Book Number |
DB074560
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Title Status |
Active
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Medium |
Digital Book
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Download Link |
Downloadable talking book.
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Narrator |
Strom, Margaret.
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Annotation |
Civil-rights attorney reviews America's racial history and argues that widespread incarceration of African Americans has replaced legal segregation as a means of social control. Suggests the war on drugs creates a pretense for mass arrests and leads to permanent second-class citizenship for former inmates. Foreword by Cornel West. 2010.
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Language |
English
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Local Subject |
Social problems, services & associations - 360
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Social problems - Criminology, Crime - 364
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Social sciences - 300
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Black, African-American Interest - M-BLK
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LC Subject |
African American men - Social conditions
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African American prisoners - United States
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Criminal justice, Administration of - United States
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Discrimination in criminal justice administration - United States
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Race discrimination - United States
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United States - Race relations
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Audience Notes |
Female narrator. NLS/BPH
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Publication Info |
(Potomac Talking Book Services, recording studio) 2012 (Potomac Talking Book Services, recording studio)
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Original Publication |
Recorded from: New York, N.Y. : New Press ; [Jackson, Tenn.] : Distributed by Perseus Distribution, c2012. 9781595586438
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