Publisher: The New Press
ISBN: 9781595586995
Price: $27.95 CAD
Publication Date: Feb 2012
Rights: Canada
Pages: 336

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Blind Goddess

A Reader on Race and Justice

Alexander Papachristou

Blind Goddess brings together the most significant writings of practitioners, professors, and advocates to make sense of what is perhaps the nation’s most astonishing and shameful achievement: the highest per-capita incarceration rate anywhere in the world compounded by the shockingly disproportionate imprisonment of poor people of color. Although there is growing awareness of the huge fiscal cost of mass incarceration, the moral, human, and social devastation of racially skewed law enforcement remains largely unrecognized.

Featuring many of today’s premier legal scholars, experts, and writers—among them David Cole, Glenn C. Loury, Bob Herbert, and Lani Guinier—here is a boundary-pushing book that elucidates the impact of race on each stage of the criminal process. From policing and prosecuting to jury selection, sentencing, prison conditions, and reentering society, Blind Goddess is an essential volume for the general reader and an ideal reality check for students of criminal law. With selections from critically acclaimed contemporary works including Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow, Paul Butler’s Let’s Get Free, Amy Bach’s Ordinary Injustice, and Robert Perkinson’s Texas Tough, Blind Goddess provides easy access to a wealth of cutting-edge analyses and concrete solutions.

· Foreword - Patricia J. Williams

· Preface–Alexander Papachristou

Part I: Setting the Stage: Is Justice Really Black and White?

1. The New Jim Crow (Michelle Alexander)

2. Race, Incarceration, and American Values (Glenn C. Loury)

3. Class, Race & Hyperincarceration in Revanchist America (Loïc Wacquant)

Part II: Policing: Where are the Cops When You Need Them?

4. Profiling Unmasked: From Criminal Profiling to Racial Profiling (David A. Harris)

5. Stop-Question-Frisk Analyses Center for Constitutional Rights (Center for Constitutional Rights)

6. The Shame of New York City (Bob Herbert)

Part III: The War on Drugs: Who is the Real Enemy?

7. The War on Drugs and the African American Community (Marc Mauer)

8. Decades of Disparity: Drug Arrests and Race in the United States Human Rights Watch (Human Rights Watch)

Part IV: Lawyering: Women are the Lawyers Really Representing?

9. Should Good People Be Prosecutors? (Paul Butler)

10. “What’s a Defense?” (Amy Bach)

Part V: The Jury: Who are Your Peers and Who are Mine?

11. Judgment and Discrimination (David Cole)

12. Illegal Racial Discrimination in Jury Selection: A Continuing Legacy Equal Justice Initiative (Equal Justice Initiative)

Part VI: Sentencing: Does Time Come in Different Colors?

13. No Exit: The Expanding Use of Life Sentences in America (Ashley Nellis and Ryan S. King)

14. New Political and Cultural Meanings (David Garland)

Part VII: Prison: What are the Walls Hiding?

15. Texas Tough (Robert Perkinson)

16. Prisoners of the Census in New York: Democracy on the March! (Eric Lotke)

Part VIII: Collateral Consequences: Could it Get Any Worse?

17. Incarceration and Social Inequality (Bruce Western and Becky Pettit)

18. Death by a Thousand Little Cuts: Studies of the Impact of Incarceration (Todd R. Clear)

Part IX: Solutions: Can Anything Be Done About This?

19. Doing Less Harm (Michael Tonry)

20. The Fire This Time (Michelle Alexander)

21. From Racial Profiling to Racial Literacy (Lani Guinier)

· Notes

· Bibliography

About the Author

Alexander Papachristou began his legal career representing prisoners and went on to practice corporate law both domestically and internationally. He now leads and advises social justice organizations focusing on human rights, education reform, and socioeconomic development.

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A Reader on Race and Justice

Alexander Papachristou

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