Michelle Alexander writes with an unparalleled thou toughness and persuasiveness of the ideology that installed and maintains mass incarceration and a racial caste system, akin to a MLK Jr of our time. Afua Hirsch, Narrated by:
Amelia Gentleman, By: "-Publishers Weekly, starred review, Acclaimed archeologist and historian Karolyn Smardz Frost painstakingly resurrects Thornton and Lucie Blackburn's perilous 1830s journey from Kentucky slavery to Canadian freedom. Ibram X. Kendi, Narrated by:
Thankyou for opening my eyes, The fire is no longer next time We have to stroke it now Again and again and again until the blaze yields abiding structures.
Using his extraordinary gifts as a teacher and storyteller, Kendi helps us recognise that everyone is, at times, complicit in racism whether they realise it or not, and by describing with moving humility his own journey from racism to antiracism, he shows us how instead to be a force for good.
Civil rights advocate and accomplished lawyer Michelle Alexander broaches a topic worthy of national conversation.
Oprah's Book Club Summer 2018 SelectionA powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit.“An amazing and heartwarming story, it restores our faith in the inherent goodness of humanity.”—Archbishop Desmond Tutu. She also manages to mimic characters well when reading some quotes etc. "-Booklist, starred review.
From this book can come understanding and compassion, and knowledge that things need to change.
How does it feel to be constantly regarded as a potential threat, strip-searched at every airport?
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Now he continues to speak out in Tears We Cannot Stop—a provocative and deeply personal call for change.
A phenomenal book that should be required listening. Social Science / Discrimination & Race Relations, Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, By purchasing this item, you are transacting with Google Payments and agreeing to the Google Payments. The reason is simply because of the colour of her skin. With so much attention on the flames,' she wrote, 'everyone had ignored the kindling.'.
Covering everything from the police, education and identity to politics, sexual objectification and the far right, Natives speaks directly to British denial and squeamishness when it comes to confronting issues of race and class that are at the heart of the legacy of Britain's racialised empire. This provocative work has shifted how we think about civil rights and prison reform. Destined to be a classic memoir of wrongful imprisonment and freedom won, Hinton’s memoir tells his dramatic thirty–year journey and shows how you can take away a man’s freedom, but you can’t take away his imagination, humor, or joy. In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein explodes the myth that America's cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation - that is, through individual prejudices, income differences, or the actions of private institutions like banks and real estate agencies. In February 2014, Reni Eddo-Lodge posted an impassioned argument on her blog about her deep-seated frustration with the way discussions of race and racism in Britain were constantly being shut down by those who weren't affected by it. An urgent call to free those buried alive by America’s legal system, and an inspiring true story about unwavering belief in humanity—from a gifted young lawyer and important new voice in the movement to transform the system. March 5, …
I wish all Americans would read this to understand the historical context for continuing racial injustice. Perfectly positioned to bridge the gap between people of color and white Americans struggling with race complexities, Oluo answers the questions listeners don't dare ask and explains the concepts that continue to elude everyday Americans. Alexander makes her case that the War on Drugs created a new racial caste system in a highly readable and compelling way. Challenging the notion that the election of Barack Obama signalled a new era of colourblindness in the United States, The New Jim Crow reveals how racial discrimination was not ended but merely redesigned. Johny Pitts, Narrated by:
In 1985, Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder in Alabama. As Jane Jacobs established in her classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities, it was the deeply flawed urban planning of the 1950s that created many of the impoverished neighborhoods we know. The New Jim Crow is such a book. What The New Jim Crow shows with substantial data and insight is how the American state via the police, the courts, and prison system is systemically racist.
By using our services, you agree to our use of cookies, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, 10th Anniversary Edition. Written with compassion and understandable frustration.
These are the ways in which ordinary white people react when it is pointed out to them that they have done or said something that has - unintentionally - caused racial offence or hurt. Prime Audiobooks. Impeccably researched, closely argued and utterly damning. Lawyer and activist Michelle Alexander offers a stunning account of the rebirth of a caste-like system in the United States, one that has resulted in millions of African Americans locked behind bars and then relegated to a permanent second-class status, denied the very rights supposedly won in the Civil Rights movement. I rated the book 4-5 stars and my only reason for the 4's is the repitition of facts at quite few stages throughout the book.
Alexander argues that criminals convicted by our justice system face the same obstacles- legal discrimination and disenfranchisement- African Americans faced during the Jim Crow era. But with no money and a different system of justice for a poor black man in the South, Hinton was sentenced to death by electrocution.
And it has been structured against African Americans for there is nothing to stop the police from fulfilling their arrest quotas by going into poor black neighbourhoods and carrying out stop and searches, then arresting young black men for any infraction of the law.
Nevertheless I enjoyed listening to this book.
The time has come to make the decision of her life: walk away now from this good thing or convince Alton that by living together the marital bliss he longs for can still be theirs. And if you are person who holds white privilege, the question you should be asking isn't whether or not this is true, but rather, what are you going to do about it?
I read it and said amen." Lynch mobs, chain gangs, and popular views of black southern criminals that defined the Jim Crow South are well known.
As they try to grasp at the small potential for happiness that may still exist for them, their lives are tested to the limit by the devastation of a hurricane.