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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
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
To fight for mental and moral changes after policy is changed means fighting alongside growing benefits and
Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
Naming who has access and who doesn’t guides our efforts in challenging injustice.
Robin DiAngelo • White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
While we still seem to be caught in the treacherous segue between stories, those cast as victims in old master narratives are writing themselves anew.