The New Jim Crow: How the War on Drugs Gave Birth to a Permanent American Undercaste
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Crime rates do not explain the sudden and dramatic mass incarceration of African Americans during the past 30 years. And the vast majority of that increase is due to the War on Drugs.
Michelle Alexander | Posted 05.25.2011