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Recommended reading on race and criminal justice after the "beer summit"

By Douglas A. Berman

In the wake of the so-called "beer summit"  ? which probably has gotten so much attention because everyone is tired of thinking hard about hard issues like health care reform ? here is a piece from SSRN that everyone should check out.  The piece by Ian Haney-Lopez is titled "Post-Racial Racism: Crime Control and Racial Stratification in the Age of Obama," and here is the abstract: What does the 2008 election of Barack Obama to the United States presidency portend for race in America?  This Essay uses the tremendous racial disparities in the American crime control system to assess race and racism as key features of contemporary society.  The Essay begins by considering a compelling thesis that racialized mass incarceration stems from backlash to the civil rights movement...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 31, 2009 (boomark / email).