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Punishing Race: A Continuing American Dilemma

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Punishing Race: A Continuing American Dilemma - Tonry, Michael
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Punishing Race addresses enduring paradoxes of racial disparities in America and the problems of race in the criminal justice system. The white majority, Tonry observes, has a remarkable capacity to endure the suffering of disadvantaged black and, increasingly, Hispanic men. The criminal justice system is the latest in a series of devices, including slavery, Jim Crow, and legally countenanced discrimination, that have maintained white dominance over black people. Setting out a new agenda, Tonry pushes for overdue--and ...

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Punishing Race: A Continuing American Dilemma 2012, Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN-13: 9780199926466

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