Elizabeth Hinton: 2 books
by Brandon Terry, Joshua Cohen, Barbara Ransby
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
Martin Luther King's legacy for today's activists, fifty years after his death.
Since his death on April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King's legacy has influenced generations of activism. Edited and with a lead essay by Brandon Terry, this volumeexplores what this legacy can and cannot do for activism...
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime
The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
How did the land of the free become the home of the world’s largest prison system? Elizabeth Hinton traces the rise of mass incarceration to an ironic source: not the War on Drugs of the Reagan administration but the War on Crime that began during Johnson’s Great Society at the height of the civil rights era.