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Alexander’s “The New Jim Crow” banned in American prisons

Alexander’s “The New Jim Crow” banned in American prisons
Call out systematic, structural racism and you might just get banned.
Ashley Brimmage, Opinions Editor January 31, 2018

While researchers at Pew Research center have recently claimed the number of black Americans imprisoned has declined substantially within America, almost by 25 percent since 2009, a general fear seems to exist in prison systems when the term “New Jim Crow” is used. PRISONS BANNING BOOKS Particularly,...