“After reading The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander's stunning work of scholarship, one gains the terrible realization that, for people of color, the American criminal justice system resembles the Soviet Union's gulag—the latter punished ideas, the former punishes a condition.” PeopleIdeasReadingJusticeConditionsColorTerribleGainsUnionsCriminalsRealizationFormerLatterSovietSoviet UnionScholarshipCrowJustice SystemStunningCriminal JusticeJim CrowCriminal Justice SystemGulags Author:David Levering Lewis
“Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns is an American masterpiece, a stupendous literary success that channels the social sciences as iconic biography in order to tell a vast story of a people's reinvention of itself and of a nation-the first complete history of the Great Black Migration from start to finish, north, east, west.” PeopleFirstsStoriesOrderNationsSocialBlackSunWestEastWarmthBiographiesMasterpieceMigrationIconicSocial ScienceReinventionNorth East Author:David Levering Lewis
