The New Jim Crow appears in 8 book lists

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The New Jim Crow appears in 8 book lists on Shepherd.

My favorite books to understand the role of race and poverty in the criminal justice system

Book cover of From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America Book cover of Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America Book cover of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Book cover of Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption Book cover of The Fear of Too Much Justice: How Race and Poverty Undermine Fairness in the Criminal Courts

My favorite books on social justice and the need for transformative change

Book cover of Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption Book cover of How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence Book cover of Smoke and Mirrors: The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure Book cover of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Book cover of Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation

My favorite books about American politics for open-minded readers

Book cover of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Book cover of Hegemony How-To: A Roadmap for Radicals Book cover of All Politics Is Local: Why Progressives Must Fight for the States Book cover of Why I Am Not A Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto Book cover of We've Got People: From Jesse Jackson to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the End of Big Money and the Rise of a Movement

My favorite books about mass incarceration

Book cover of Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms Book cover of Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California Book cover of Solitary Book cover of Abolition for the People: The Movement for a Future Without Policing & Prisons Book cover of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

My favorite books featuring trail-blazing lawyers passionately fighting for social justice

Book cover of Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption Book cover of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Book cover of Rage Book cover of Streetfighter in the Courtroom: The People's Advocate Book cover of The Relevant Lawyers: Conversations Out of Court on Their Clients, Practice, Politics and Life Style

My favorite books about the criminal industrial complex

Book cover of Man’s Search for Meaning Book cover of Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death, and Redemption in an American Prison Book cover of Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption Book cover of The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America Book cover of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

My favorite books on the impact of race on American politics

Book cover of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Book cover of When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America Book cover of The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America Book cover of The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution Book cover of Deep Roots: How Slavery Still Shapes Southern Politics

My favorite books to understand racial and economic inequality in the USA

Book cover of Feudal Society Book cover of A Theory of Economic History Book cover of The College Dropout Scandal Book cover of The Strange Career of Jim Crow Book cover of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

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