The First Civil Right: Race and the Rise of the Carceral State by Naomi Murakawa

The First Civil Right: Race and the Rise of the Carceral State

Studies in Postwar American Political Development

Naomi Murakawa

288 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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The explosive rise in the U.S. incarceration rate in the second half of the twentieth century, and the racial transformation of the prison population from mostly white at mid-century to sixty-five percent black and Latino in the present day, is a ...

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