In Locking Up Our Own, he seeks to understand the war on crime that began in the s and why it was supported by many African American leaders in the nation’s urban centers. Forman shows us that the first substantial cohort of black mayors, judges, and police chiefs took office amid a surge in crime and drug addiction. James Forman Jr. is a leading critic of mass incarceration and its disproportionate impact on people of color. In Locking Up Our Own, he seeks to understand the war on crime that began in the s and find out why it was supported by many African American leaders in the nation’s urban centers. Published in , Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America is a political nonfiction book by James Foreman, Jr. By focusing on key areas in America's recent history, Foreman seeks to understand why African American leaders in positions of power supported the increasing incarceration and harsher sentences of masses of black Americans.
ISS Mass Incarceration Project's Capstone Lecture on Oct. 4, featured James Forman, Jr. discussing his book, 'Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America.' Sponsored by the Institute for Social Sciences and the Center for the Study of Inequality. Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America - Ebook written by James Forman, Jr.. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America. James Forman Jr. is a leading critic of mass incarceration and its disproportionate impact on people of color. In Locking Up Our Own, he seeks to understand the war on crime that began in the s and find out why it was supported by many African American leaders in the nation's urban centers.
Reviewed in the United States on July 7, Verified Purchase. “Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America” by James Forman is a brilliantly written, thoroughly annotated, and extremely valuable documentary. Former public defender James Forman, Jr. is a leading critic of mass incarceration and its disproportionate impact on people of color. In Locking Up Our Own, he seeks to understand the war on crime that began in the s and why it was supported by many African American leaders in the nation’s urban centers. Locking Up Our Own is a sobering chronicle of how black people, in the hope of saving their communities, contributed to the rise of a system that has undone much of the progress of the civil rights era. But, as Forman knows, they could not have built it by themselves, and they are even less likely to be able to abolish it without influential white allies, and dramatic reforms in the structure of American society.".
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