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Books like The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
The best books like The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness are Between the World and Me, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion, and Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander is about mass incarceration, racial caste, criminal justice. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Between the World and Me
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Ta-Nehisi Coates · Memoir
Between the World and Me is a letter from Ta-Nehisi Coates to his teenage son, Samori, about what it means to live in a Black body in the United States.
A kindred politics read.
Read the summary → - The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Jonathan Haidt · Psychology
The Righteous Mind is Jonathan Haidt's argument that moral reasoning is not the source of our moral judgments — it's the press secretary for them.
A kindred politics read.
Read the summary → - Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
Patrick Radden Keefe · History
Empire of Pain is Patrick Radden Keefe's account of the Sackler family — the dynasty behind Purdue Pharma and the opioid crisis — told across three generations.
A kindred politics read.
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- Killers of the Flower Moon
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David Grann · History
In the 1920s, members of the Osage Nation in northeastern Oklahoma were being murdered.
A kindred politics read.
Read the summary → - Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
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Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry · Memoir
Helter Skelter is the account of the Tate-LaBianca murders of August 1969 written by Vincent Bugliosi, the Los Angeles deputy district attorney who prosecuted Charles Manson, with journalist Curt Gentry.
Both dig into criminal justice.
Read the summary → - Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume III
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Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume III
Robert A. Caro · Biography
Master of the Senate is the third volume of Robert Caro's biography of Lyndon Johnson and covers his years as a senator from 1949 through 1958, culminating in the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
Both dig into civil rights.
Read the summary → - Hate, Inc.
- How Democracies Die
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Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt · Politics
Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt are Harvard comparative politics scholars who have spent their careers studying how democracies break down in Latin America and Europe.
A kindred politics read.
Read the summary → - Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master's Insights
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Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master's Insights
Graham Allison et al. · Politics
Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master's Insights compiles the views of Singapore's founding prime minister on the major strategic questions of the early twenty-first century.
A kindred politics read.
Read the summary → - Seeing Like a State
- Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
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Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
Arlie Russell Hochschild · Politics
Strangers in Their Own Land is Arlie Russell Hochschild's attempt to understand the American Right from the inside — specifically, why working-class white Louisianans who live in a state ravaged by the petrochemical industry vote for politicians who oppose the regulations that might clean it up.
A kindred politics read.
Read the summary → - The Concept of the Political
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Carl Schmitt · Politics
Carl Schmitt's central move in The Concept of the Political is definitional: he argues that the specifically political distinction is the distinction between friend and enemy.
A kindred politics read.
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Books like The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness: quick answers
What are the best books like The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness?
The best books like The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander are Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt, Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe, Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann, Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, such as mass incarceration, racial caste, criminal justice.
What should I read after The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness?
A natural next read after The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness is Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates. A kindred politics read. Other strong choices are The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt, Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe, Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann.
What books are similar to The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander?
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness centers on mass incarceration, racial caste, criminal justice. Books with a similar feel include Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt, Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe, Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann, Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry, Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume III by Robert A. Caro — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
