Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780385506250 (0385506252)
ASIN: 385506252
Publish date: March 25th 2008
Publisher: Doubleday
Pages no: 480
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Literature,
Cultural,
American,
African American,
Politics,
American History,
Sociology,
Social Movements,
Social Justice,
Race
Read prior to beginning the Michelle Alexander book. Besides a bit of overwrought prose, this is brilliantly researched and well-argued. Both books help to trace the long history and current crisis of systematic, institutional racism in the US, here most distressingly in our legal and prison systems...
An ugly, miserable, little-known chapter of American history everyone should know about.