The Black Scholar Books Received (Bibliography)
By The Black Scholar
- Release Date: 2010-09-22
- Genre: Social Science
Description
Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. New York: The New Press, $27.95, cloth, 290 pages, 2010, ISBN 978-1-59558-103-7. The author, a legal scholar and formal civil rights litigator, explores how old practices of discrimination persist within the legal system. The New Jim Crow shows the role that incarceration plays in the purportedly colorblind politics of today's society. Bass, Amy. Those About Him Remained Silent: The Battle Over W. E. B. Du Bois. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, $24.95, cloth, 198 pages, 2009, ISBN 978-0-8166-4495-7. Bass's new book focuses on the debate in Du Bois's town of birth, Great Barrington, Massachusetts over how, and whether or not, to commemorate one of its most famous members. Those About Him Remained Silent is a history of how racism, patriotism, and global politics interacted in the town's monument to Du Bois's legacy.
