Tag: mass incarceration
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The Abandonment: Reflections on James Foreman’s “Locking Up Our Own”
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James Forman’s new book is indispensable “for those who want to get the whole story on the rise of the “the New Jim Crow.” The Black middle and upper classes, which have been largely exempt from the mass Black incarceration regime, “actively participated in the rise of the racist mass incarceration and felony-branding system.” Blacks…