The New Jim Crow: A Book Review

It is the virtue of The New Jim Crow to show the way mass incarceration and the drug war have come together to create a new system of racial control

It is the virtue of The New Jim Crow to show the way mass incarceration and the drug war have come together to create a new system of racial control

It is simultaneously an unusual and well thought out ‘looking up’ ethnography ( a trend in anthropology to examine the thinking and culture of more powerful groups rather than more ‘traditional’ subjects of research), and a full blast political challenge to their role in American and global political and economic structures.

In Renting Lacy: A Story of America’s Prostituted Children, former U.S. Representative and founder of Shared Hope International, Linda Smith, exposes the truth of child trafficking and forced prostitution in the United States. Using a novel-style approach, the author presents the lives and experiences of prostituted children whose stories are based upon true events. The [...]