The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

The New Press (2010)
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Argues that the War on Drugs and policies that deny convicted felons equal access to employment, housing, education and public benefits create a permanent under-caste based largely on race. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

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