By Valentin Figueroa and Guadalupe Tuñón According to the US Department of Justice, the rate of imprisonment of African Americans was 938 per 100,000 persons in 2020—five times higher than the rate for whites. The mass incarceration of Black Americans has led activists and scholars to denounce the prison system as “slavery by another name” or … Continue reading The Differential Incarceration of the Emancipated and the Enslaved
The Differential Incarceration of the Emancipated and the Enslaved
