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2021., Adolescent, Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers Call No: Historical Fic Shabazz Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: While in Charlestown Prison in the 1940s, young Malcolm Little reads all the books in the library, joins the debate team and the Nation of Islam, and emerges as Malcolm X.
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-- Mass incarceration, Black men, & the fight for justice[2022]., Pre-adolescent, Lerner Publications Call No: SOCIAL ISSUES NF LEW Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Issues in action (Read Woke Books)Summary Note: "The US criminal justice system disproportionately targets Black men, resulting in much higher incarceration rates and impacts that can last a lifetime. Readers learn this system's history and context and ways they can help"--Provided by publisher.
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2012., Distributed by Perseus Distribution Distributed by Perseus Distribution Call No: 305.896 Ale Edition: Rev. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Legal scholar Michelle Alexander argues that the U.S. criminal justice system has basically replaced the Jim Crow system functioning as the newest system of racial control. Contends that targeting black men through the War on Drugs has created mass incarceration where discrimination in employment, housing, education, benefits, and voting rights are all justified, even after release from prison.
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-- New Jim Crow study guide & call to action[2013]., The Veterans of Hope Project Call No: 353.4 NEW NEW Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Provides a study guide that draws and expands on themes from Michelle Alexander's "The New Jim Crow," focusing on race, racism, and structural inequality in the age of mass incarceration.
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c2008., Juvenile, Millbrook Press Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: On my own historySummary Note: Tells the story of James Forten, a free African-American boy from Philadelphia who was taken prisoner aboard a British warship and later on a British prison ship until the end of the war.
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2022., Adolescent, Ember Call No: Realistic Fic Johnson Edition: First Ember edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: While writing letters to Innocence X, a justice-seeking project, asking them to help her father, an innocent black man on death row, teenaged Tracy takes on another case when her brother is accused of killing his white girlfriend.