Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One: The Killing Fields of Chicago -- Chapter Two: Uncovering Black Cultural Privilege -- Chapter Three: The Great White Shark -- Chapter Four: Jim Crow Jr. -- Chapter Five: Are You a 30 Percenter or a 70 Percenter? -- References -- Index -- About the Author.
Gaskew presents a prison-based education designed to address a prevalent racial politics of shaming, self-segregation, and transgenerational learned-helplessness. He explores the Black counter-culture of crime and tasks incarcerated Black men to draw upon the strength of their cultural privilege to transform from criminal offender into student.
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African American prisoners. African American men -- Social conditions. Crime -- United States -- Sociological aspects. Criminal -- Rehabilitation -- United States. Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States.