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Author
Language
English
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Black History Nonfiction
NYT - Politics and American History
NYT - Race and Civil Rights
Understanding Racism
NYT - Politics and American History
NYT - Race and Civil Rights
Understanding Racism
Formats
Description
"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 astounding percentage of the African American community remains trapped in a subordinate status - much like their grandparents before them." "In this incisive critique, former...
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Seldom does a book have the impact of Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow.
Since it was first published in 2010, it has been cited in judicial decisions and has been
adopted in campus-wide and community-wide reads; it helped inspire the creation of
the Marshall Project and the new $100 million Art for Justice Fund; it has been the
winner of numerous prizes, including the prestigious NAACP Image Award; and it has
spent nearly 250 weeks on the New...
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
"En este revolucionario trabajo que ha permanecido por mas de dos anos en la lista de los libros mas vendidos del New York Times, Michelle Alexander argumenta que 'no hemos erradicado las castas raciales en Estados Unidos; las hemos meramente redisenado.' Al apuntar a hombres negros por medio de la Guerra contra las Drogas y diezmando las comunidades de gente de color, el sistema de justicia criminal de Estados Unidos funciona como un sistema contemporaneo...
Author
Publisher
New Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Susan Burton's world changed in an instant when her five-year-old son was killed by a van driving down their street. Consumed by grief and without access to professional help, Susan self-medicated, becoming addicted first to cocaine, then crack. As a resident of South Los Angeles, a black community under siege in the War on Drugs, it was but a matter of time before Susan was arrested. She cycled in and out of prison for over fifteen years; never...
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Winner of the 2018 National Council on Crime & Delinquency's Media for a Just Society Awards
Winner of the 2017 Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice
"Valuable . . . [like Michelle] Alexander's The New Jim Crow."
—Los Angeles Review of Books
"Susan Burton is a national treasure . . . her life story is testimony to the human capacity for resilience and recovery . . . [Becoming Ms. Burton is] a stunning...
Winner of the 2017 Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice
"Valuable . . . [like Michelle] Alexander's The New Jim Crow."
—Los Angeles Review of Books
"Susan Burton is a national treasure . . . her life story is testimony to the human capacity for resilience and recovery . . . [Becoming Ms. Burton is] a stunning...