Kristina Graaff, Street Literature: Black Popular Fiction in the Era of U.S. Mass Incarceration
Mass Incarceration, the multibillion-dollar Prison Industrial Complex it sustains and the racial inequalities it consolidates are three of the most pressing issues in the contemporary United States. A consequence of the War on Drugs that began in the 1970s and further exacerbated during the Clinton...
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European journal of American studies
2022
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| Summary: | Mass Incarceration, the multibillion-dollar Prison Industrial Complex it sustains and the racial inequalities it consolidates are three of the most pressing issues in the contemporary United States. A consequence of the War on Drugs that began in the 1970s and further exacerbated during the Clinton presidency, the fact that the United States jails more people than any other country in the world, including a disproportionately high number of people of color, has become iconic for the racist s... |
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