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Mass Incarceration

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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

“Michelle Alexander shows how you can change a system politically and legally, but without ever destroying its social roots. Racial domination in the United States has always found a way of coming back to life, despite legal changes… It is probably the most important book on prisons since Foucault’s Discipline and Punish in 1975. It proves that you can win the judicial battle, change the legal order and still lose the political one.”

Geoffroy de Lagasnerie, Philosopher

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    Peter Temin on An Economic Historian’s Favourite Books - Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty

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    Capital in the Twenty-First Century
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    Peter Temin on An Economic Historian’s Favourite Books - The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

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    The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
    by Michelle Alexander

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    Peter Temin on An Economic Historian’s Favourite Books - The Strange Career of Jim Crow by C. Vann Woodward

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    The Strange Career of Jim Crow
    by C. Vann Woodward

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    Peter Temin on An Economic Historian’s Favourite Books - A Theory of Economic History by John Hicks

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    A Theory of Economic History
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    Peter Temin on An Economic Historian’s Favourite Books - Feudal Society by marc bloch

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    Feudal Society
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  • Peter Temin on An Economic Historian’s Favourite Books - Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty
  • Peter Temin on An Economic Historian’s Favourite Books - The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
  • Peter Temin on An Economic Historian’s Favourite Books - The Strange Career of Jim Crow by C. Vann Woodward
  • Peter Temin on An Economic Historian’s Favourite Books - A Theory of Economic History by John Hicks
  • Peter Temin on An Economic Historian’s Favourite Books - Feudal Society by marc bloch

Peter Temin on An Economic Historian’s Favourite Books

Distinguished economic historian, Peter Temin, talks us through some of his favourite books. His own latest book, The Vanishing Middle Class, charts America’s regression towards a pre-industrial society: with many poor, a few rich, and not much in between.

Peter Temin on An Economic Historian’s Favourite Books

    The best books on Race and American Policing, recommended by Joe Domanick

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    The best books on Race and American Policing - The Wire by David Simon

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    The Wire
    by David Simon

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    The best books on Race and American Policing - Cruel Justice by Joe Domanick

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    Cruel Justice
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    The best books on Race and American Policing - Mean Justice by Edward Humes

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    Mean Justice
    by Edward Humes

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    The best books on Race and American Policing - Serpico by Peter Maas

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    Serpico
    by Peter Maas

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    The best books on Race and American Policing - Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

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    Between the World and Me
    by Ta-Nehisi Coates

  • The best books on Race and American Policing - The Wire by David Simon
  • The best books on Race and American Policing - Cruel Justice by Joe Domanick
  • The best books on Race and American Policing - Mean Justice by Edward Humes
  • The best books on Race and American Policing - Serpico by Peter Maas
  • The best books on Race and American Policing - Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

The best books on Race and American Policing, recommended by Joe Domanick

The author and journalist describes how racism, violence, and corruption became entrenched in police departments across America. He picks five books describing a stark reality, and suggests a blueprint for change

The best books on Race and American Policing, recommended by Joe Domanick

    The best books on Race and the Law, recommended by Kenneth W. Mack

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    The best books on Race and the Law - Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History by Rogers M. Smith

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    Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History
    by Rogers M. Smith

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    The best books on Race and the Law - At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943 by Erika Lee

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    At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943
    by Erika Lee

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    The best books on Race and the Law - Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America by Mae M. Ngai

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    Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America
    by Mae M. Ngai

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    The best books on Race and the Law - Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement by Patricia Sullivan

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    Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement
    by Patricia Sullivan

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    The best books on Race and the Law - The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

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    The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
    by Michelle Alexander

  • The best books on Race and the Law - Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History by Rogers M. Smith
  • The best books on Race and the Law - At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943 by Erika Lee
  • The best books on Race and the Law - Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America by Mae M. Ngai
  • The best books on Race and the Law - Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement by Patricia Sullivan
  • The best books on Race and the Law - The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

The best books on Race and the Law, recommended by Kenneth W. Mack

Kenneth W. Mack, the  Lawrence D. Biele Professor of Law at Harvard University, discusses the warring ideals of egalitarianism and exclusion at the heart of US politics and law, from the founding of the nation up to the present day.

The best books on Race and the Law, recommended by Kenneth W. Mack

    The best books on Crime and Punishment, recommended by David Downes

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    The best books on Crime and Punishment - Suicide by Emile Durkheim

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    Suicide
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    The best books on Crime and Punishment - Delinquency and Opportunity by Lloyd Ohlin & Richard Cloward

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    Delinquency and Opportunity
    by Lloyd Ohlin & Richard Cloward

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    The best books on Crime and Punishment - Bouncers by Dick Hobbs et al

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    Bouncers
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    The best books on Crime and Punishment - Punishment and Inequality in America by Bruce Western

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    Punishment and Inequality in America
    by Bruce Western

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    The best books on Crime and Punishment - The Prisoners’ Dilemma by Nicola Lacey

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    The Prisoners’ Dilemma
    by Nicola Lacey

  • The best books on Crime and Punishment - Suicide by Emile Durkheim
  • The best books on Crime and Punishment - Delinquency and Opportunity by Lloyd Ohlin & Richard Cloward
  • The best books on Crime and Punishment - Bouncers by Dick Hobbs et al
  • The best books on Crime and Punishment - Punishment and Inequality in America by Bruce Western
  • The best books on Crime and Punishment - The Prisoners’ Dilemma by Nicola Lacey

The best books on Crime and Punishment, recommended by David Downes

Emeritus professor at the LSE’s Mannheim Centre for the Study of Criminology & Criminal Justice tells us about the consequences of mass incarceration and a breakdown in social and moral cohesion

The best books on Crime and Punishment, recommended by David Downes

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