MASS INCARCERATION: The New Black Plague
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"The Incarceration of African Americans: How Deep Does it Go?" By Chyna McFarlane
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A research essay detailing the effects of the War on Drugs and the Prison-Industrial Complex on the mass incarceration of African Americans.
"Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class" By Ian Haney Lopez
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This book goes into extensive detail about the rhetoric used in politics and how that has affected the treatment of minorities through laws and policies.
"The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness" By Michelle Alexander
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This book discusses the effect mass incarceration has had on black communities by comparing it to the Jim Crow laws of the early 20th century, detailing the disenfranchisement seen by released African American felons.
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"13TH" Dir. Ava DuVernay
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An enlightening documentary highlighting the effects of mass incarceration and a corrupt criminal justice system.