University of Chicago Press: Chicago, 1992. ... In the last two decades the population of black male inmates grew three times as fast as the number of black men enrolled in higher education. ... In a country less than 13 percent blacks, one half of the prison population is African American. ... When prisons disappear human beings in order to convey the illusion of solving social problems, penal infrastructures must be created to accommodate a rapidly swelling population of caged people. Goods and services must be provided to keep imprisoned populations alive. ...

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Divided We Fall John Davis, a 28 year old African-American software engineer who has an annual income of $110,000, waits for a real estate agent in front of a beautiful two-story house in Kirkwood. He owns a small software company called Hi-Tex that is located only a couple of blocks from his...

• Word Count: 2726
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• Grade Level: High School

1. INTRODUCTION In 1988, the now-bestselling author and former lawyer John Grisham had his first book published. Entitled "A Time to Kill", the novel presented the story of a small Mississippi town that becomes the scene of a spectacular trial: After two white men rape his daughter, her black father named Carl Lee Hailey shoots them. He then hires the white street lawyer Jake Brigance as his attorney, who also defended his brother in a different case. A wave of racial tension hits the town, with its citizens taking sides, the black community organizing marches and the Ku-Klux-Klan ...

• Word Count: 4938
• Approx Pages: 20
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Never before and again in the history of the Harlem Renaissance, so many leading figures of this period came together to write for the rights of the black population in America. ... They tell us real life stories of the black population in America since the beginning of colonization, and it is about time to do something about the situation they live in. ...

• Word Count: 4309
• Approx Pages: 17
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School