Racializing Justice, Disenfranchising Lives: The Racism, Criminal Justice, and Law Reader

by Manning Marable (Editor), Ian Steinberg (Editor)

African Americans today face a systemic crisis of mass underemployment, mass imprisonment, and mass disfranchisement. This comprehensive reader makes clear to students the mutual constitution of these three crises.

394 pages, Paperback

First published August 15, 2007

About the author

Manning Marable was an American professor of public affairs, history and African-American Studies at Columbia University. He founded and directed the Institute for Research in African-American Studies. He authored several texts and was active in progressive political causes. At the time of his death, he had completed a biography of human rights activist Malcolm X, entitled Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention.