![]() ![]() The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander- The New Jim Crow: reexamining mass incarceration in America They’re arranged in alphabetical order by the authors’ last names. Below is a list of twelve enlightening books about poverty in America published in more recent years. Since that time, sociologists and policymakers alike have grappled with the stubborn persistence of the conditions that doom millions to the margins of existence but seem impervious to government intervention. The book captured the attention of the Kennedy Administration and probably influenced the thinking that led to Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty. ![]() Poverty went largely unrecognized by the American public before the publication in 1962 of Michael Harrington‘s The Other America. ![]()
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