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Beyond Prisons
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The History of Racism in American Society
Even anti races historians, she contends, do not go far enough in examining the ways in which black people were made into criminals. After emancipation, he court room became the ideal place to exact racial retribution. In this sense, the work of the criminal justice system was intimately related to the extra legal work of lynchey. There's so much in that one paragraph and there are so many layers to what she is doing. And what the book gets at in terms of the history of racism in american society. Tat these things cannot be divorced from a contemporary analysis of carcorality in our society.
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