Welcome to the Book Club!
- THIS QUARTER'S BOOK TITLE: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration inwards the Age of Coloredblindness
- AUTHOR: Michelle Alexander
- READING AND DISCUSSION PERIOD: July 1, 2012 - September 30, 2012
- INITIAL DISCUSSION QUESTION: According to a The New York Times report, "[t]he U.S.A. of America has less than v per centum of the world's population. But it has well-nigh a quarter of the world's prisoners." See U.S. prison theater population dwarfs that of other nations, past times Adam Liptak, NYT (04/23/08). What is the argue for America's growing Industrial Prison Complex? What, if any, connectedness does it accept amongst the history of enslavement of Africans inwards America?
The blog's quarterly online mass social club volition live on reading in addition to discussing The New Jim Crow past times Michelle Alexander from 7/1 through 9/30/12. The finish of the BHH mass social club is to get together the blog's readers into a dialogue to a greater extent than or less a mass related to African history in addition to culture. Once yous accept read the book, post service your commentaries in addition to educate your discussions hither regarding the book.
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