reconciliation. The book presents a 12-point plan for immediate changes. Magnani and Wray offer a truly radical analysis that penetrates to the roots of our prison crisis, challenges long-held assumptions, and imagines thoughtful alternatives.
Fortress Press, 2006, 208 pp., paperback $13.00
The New Jim Crow Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
Former-litigator-turned-legal-scholar, Michelle Alexander provoca- tively argues that we have not ended racial caste in America: we have simply redesigned it. Alexander shows that, by targeting black men and devastating communities of color, the U.S. criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control, even as it formally adheres to the principle of color blindness. The New Jim Crow challenges the civil rights community—and all of us—to place confronting mass incarceration at the forefront of a new movement for racial justice in America.
New Press, 2010, 290 pp., hardback $27.95 Racism and Diversity Concerns
Just Like Us The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America by Helen Thorpe
The wife of the governor of Colorado, Quaker author Helen Thorpe writes a powerful and moving account of four young women from Mexican families who have lived most of their lives in the United States. We meet the girls on the eve of their senior prom, in Denver. Two of them have legal documentation and two do not. Thorpe takes us deep into the American subculture of Mexican immigrants. This brilliant narrative journalism is a vivid coming-of-age story about girlhood, friendship, and, most of all, identity, what it means to fake an identity, steal an identity, or inherit an identity from one’s parents and country.
Scribner, 2011, 394 pp., paperback $16.00
NEW! Create Dangerously The Immigrant Artist at Work by Edwidge Dandicat
“This is the most powerful book I’ve read in years. Though delicate in its prose and civil in its tone, it hits like a freight train. It’s a call to arms for all immigrants, all artists, all those who choose to bear witness, and all those who choose to listen. And though it describes great upheaval, tragedy, and injustice, it’s full of humor, warmth, grace, and light.” — Dave Eggers, author of What Is the What
Vintage, 2011, 208 pp., paperback $14.95
The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter
Filling a huge gap in historical literature about race that has long focused on the nonwhite, historian Nell Irvin Painter guides us through more than two thousand years of western civilization, tracing not only the invention of the idea of “race,” but also the
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