African American Support for Incarceration
The mass criminalization and incarceration of African Americans has received increasing attention in recent years, thanks to social movements.\xa0 But the role of African American leaders in locking up black people is much less known.\xa0 James Forman Jr., son of the Civil Rights leader, discusses the confluence of forces \u2013 including class differences within the black community \u2014 that generated African American support for punitive policies.\nResources:\nJames Forman Jr., Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2017\n\xa0\nThe post African American Support for Incarceration appeared first on KPFA.