The imagistic story begins when bigger kills a rat in his dilapidated tenement at the. The new jim crow, a bestselling book about how mass incarceration has ravaged the black community, is banned by prisons in two states and can be difficult to obtain in others. The jim crow laws were about more than segregation, explains angela jill cooley, author of to live and dine in dixie. Native son in jim crow america part i the cambridge. One of the most influential books of the last 20 years.
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