Posts Tagged ‘civil rights’
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
As the United States celebrates the nation’s “triumph over race” with the election of Barack Obama, the majority of young black men in major American cities are locked behind bars or have been labeled felons for life. Although Jim Crow laws have been wiped off the books, an astounding percentage of the African American community…
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People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement Reviews; Shapiro, social policies writer for U.S. News & World Report , centers his empathetic review of our society’s relations to its disabled population on the 1992 passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. He documents the political progress of the issue with stories about several…
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