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Richard Johnson and I are blogging our way through The New Jim Crow. We’re rotating between chapters, posting reflections and the questions this important book is raising for us. Check out our posts on chapters one, two, three, and four. This is my final contribution; Richard will wrap things up with his thoughts on chapter … Continue reading The New Jim Crow, Chapter 5
Richard has posted his review of the fourth chapter of Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow. He’s posed some thoughtful questions at the end of his post and I hope you’ll visit his site and contribute your thoughts.
Richard Johnson and I are blogging our way through The New Jim Crow. We’re rotating between chapters, posting reflections and the questions this important book is raising for us. Check out our posts on chapters one and two. __________________________________ So far we’ve seen how Michelle Alexander examines America’s historic racial caste system and the way … Continue reading The New Jim Crow, Chapter 3
Richard has posted his review of the second chapter of Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow. I hope you’ll visit his site and chime in with your thoughts. A quick word about comments. This topic elicits strong reactions. There are comments I’ve removed from my review of the first chapter because of the ugly assumptions … Continue reading The New Jim Crow, Chapter 2
Richard Johnson and I are blogging our way through The New Jim Crow during the next few weeks. We’ll rotate between chapters, posting reflections and the questions this important book is raising for us. We hope these series of blog posts will encourage you to pick up the book and begin grappling with unsettling and … Continue reading The New Jim Crow, Chapter 1
David W. Swanson 