More than 2 million people found themselves behind bars at the turn of the twenty-first century, and millions more were relegated to the margins of mainstream society, banished to a political and social space not unlike Jim Crow, where discrimination in employment, housing, and access to education was perfectly legal, and where they could be denied the right to vote.


The New Jim Crow (ed. The New Press, 2012) - ISBN: 9781595588197

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More than 2 million people found themselves behind bars at the turn of the twenty-first century, and millions more were relegated to the margins of...

More than 2 million people found themselves behind bars at the turn of the twenty-first century, and millions more were relegated to the margins of...

More than 2 million people found themselves behind bars at the turn of the twenty-first century, and millions more were relegated to the margins of...

More than 2 million people found themselves behind bars at the turn of the twenty-first century, and millions more were relegated to the margins of...