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James Forman Jr.

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Making Sense of the Violence in Charlottesville

Was the white-nationalist march better understood as a departure from America’s traditional values, or viewed in the context of its history?

by Elizabeth Klein, James Forman Jr. via The Atlantic
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on September 3, 2017

Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America

James Forman Jr.

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Reagan signing the Anti-Drug Abuse Act.

The Untold Story of Mass Incarceration

Two new books, including ‘Locking Up Our Own,’ address major blind spots about the causes of America’s carceral failure.

by Vesla M. Weaver via Boston Review on October 24, 2017

Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Mass Incarceration

The rise of mass incarceration in the early 1970s was fueled by white fear of black crime. But the fear of crime wasn’t confined to whites.

by Adam Shatz via London Review of Books on May 4, 2017

Book cover of Richard Nixon transitioning into a needle

The Other War on Drugs

A new history of opioid addiction treatment.

by Ryan Reft via Tropics of Meta on April 10, 2026

The Minneapolis Uprising in Context

A proper understanding of urban rebellion depends on our ability to interpret it not as a wave of criminality, but as political violence.

by Elizabeth Hinton via Boston Review on May 29, 2020

Clarence Thomas.

The Conservative Black Nationalism of Clarence Thomas

A new book discusses the black nationalism at the heart of Thomas’s conservative jurisprudence.

by Corey Robin, Joshua Cohen via Boston Review on September 23, 2019

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