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Named after the laws that enforced racial segregation in the southern United States until the mids, The New Jim Crow argues that Summary : Recommended by Bill Gates and included in GatesNotes "Elaborating on the science as well as the business behind the fight against cystic fibrosis, Trivedi captures the emotions of the families, doctors, and scientists involved in the clinical trials and their 'weeping with joy' as new drugs are approved, and shows Beginning in the seventeenth century, institutions emerged in colonial America that contributed to the Summary : Early twentieth-century African American men in northern urban centers like New York faced economic isolation, segregation, a biased criminal justice system, and overt racial attacks by police and citizens. In this book, Douglas J. Flowe interrogates the meaning of crime and violence in the lives of these men, whose lawful Summary : One out of every hundred adults in the U. This book provides a crash course in what drives mass incarceration, the human and community costs, and how to stop the numbers from going even higher.

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Editors Note: Since the writing of this article, several provisions of H. But it is potentially disastrous for kids. By requiring schools to determine the immigration status of every student at enrollment, the law makes it hard to tell the difference between educators and immigration officials. Take a good look. This law was inspired by something a lot closer to home: Jim Crow. Some will argue that children brought here illegally should not get a public education. But the Supreme Court ruled otherwise almost 30 years ago, in Plyler v. The New Jim Crow

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Once in a great while a book comes along that changes the way we see the world and helps to fuel a nationwide social movement. The New Jim Crow is such a book.

Praised by Harvard Law professor Lani Guinier as "brave and bold," this book directly challenges the notion that the election of Barack Obama signals a new era of colorblindness. With dazzling candor, legal scholar Michelle Alexander argues that "we have not ended racial caste in America; we Ned merely redesigned it. Read more Read less.

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