This encyclopedia comprises descriptive essays documenting the ways in which people of African descent have been victimized by oppressive laws enacted by local,

Almost a third of all African American men in their twenties in the United States are in jail or prison, or on probation or parole. African Americans, who compr

Twenty-nine collected essays represent a critical history of Shakespeare's play as text and as theater, beginning with Samuel Johnson in 1765, and ending with a

This book examines the role of the public and policy makers in enabling the race problem in the American criminal justice system.

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