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Michelle Alexander in The New Jim Crow.
Ijeoma Oluo • So You Want to Talk About Race
As legal scholar Michelle Alexander outlines in The New Jim Crow, her bestselling account of the War on Drugs and its impact on the criminal justice system, more black men are currently under correctional control in the United States than were enslaved in 1850.
Rachel Monroe • Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession
ideas argue that racist policies are the cause
Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
Seemingly contradictory calls to lock up and to save Black people dueled in legislatures around the country but also in the minds of Americans. Black leaders joined with Republicans from Nixon to Reagan, and with Democrats from Johnson to Bill Clinton, in calling for and largely receiving more police officers, tougher and mandatory sentencing, and
... See moreIbram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow and Bryan Stevenson’s Just Mercy. Those two books archive the big idea of U.S. history: the subjugation of people of color by a succession of social systems, from the genocide of Indigenous people to slavery to mass incarceration.
Dacher Keltner • Awe
The racializing serves the core mandate of race: to create hierarchies of value.