1. The New Jim Crow
... that our ancestors fought tooth and nail for our freedom and we should never forget that concept. We pride ourselves on looking back through our history books and reading about how our forefathers have continuously stood up to the most powerful, unjust, and tyrannical nations so that the world may be able to ... improvements in so many different fields, yet the black man is arguably equally if not more oppressed than he was during the civil rights movement. The books The Jail: Managing the Underclass in American Society by John Irwin and The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander look to dem...
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