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| Author | James Forman Jr. |
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| Subjects | Incarceration in the United States African-American studies |
| Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Publication date | April 2017 |
| Pages | 320 |
| Awards | Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction Lillian Smith Book Award |
| ISBN | 9780374189976 |
| OCLC | 1242331020 |
| 364.97308996073 | |
| LC Class | HV9950 |
| Website | Official website |
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America is a 2017 book by James Forman Jr. on support for the 1970s War on Crime from Black leaders in American cities. It won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction[1] and the Lillian Smith Book Award.[2]
References
- ↑ "Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America, by James Forman Jr. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)". pulitzer.org. Retrieved November 12, 2020.
- ↑ "Professors from Yale, Duke universities named Lillian Smith Book Award winners". news.uga.edu. June 22, 2018. Retrieved November 12, 2020.
Further reading
- Kachka, Boris; Kreizman, Maris (March 21, 2017). "Spring Preview: Letterman, Strout, and 8 More Books We Can't Wait to Read". Vulture. Retrieved July 30, 2020.
- Lartey, Jamiles (April 29, 2017). "'Demolish that lie': James Forman Jr takes on Black Lives Matter backlash". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077.
- "Rev. of Locking Up Our Own". Kirkus Reviews. February 20, 2017. Retrieved July 30, 2020.
- "Rev. of Locking Up Our Own". Publishers Weekly. January 9, 2017. Retrieved July 30, 2020.
- Senior, Jennifer (April 11, 2017). "'Locking Up Our Own,' What Led to Mass Incarceration of Black Men". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.
- Weaver, Vesla M. (October 24, 2017). "The Untold Story of Mass Incarceration". Boston Review. Retrieved July 30, 2020.
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