Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America True and open enough to recognize

and open enough to recognize it and accept it in others

In this classic work--a blend of memoir

It is just that They are not writing about anything of interest that is relevant to our lives

How did these writers conceive of their task and to whom were they writing

The result is a signal contribution to the literature about growing up Black in America that has already taken its place alongside The Autobiography of Malcolm X and the works of Maya Angelou

Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America True and open enough to recognizeWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non Fiction Long listed for the National Book Award Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Finalist New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year "A beautiful book, written so well, that gives us the origins and consequences of where we are . . . I can see why [the Pulitzer prize] was awarded." Trevor Noah, The Daily Show Former public defender James Forman, Jr. is a leading critic of mass incarceration and its