Race To Incarcerate
A Graphic Retelling
Will be published approx. on 22. April 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
114 pages
978-1-59558-541-7 (ISBN)
Description
The United States' rate of incarceration is the highest in the world. Mauer's Race to Incarcerate is the essential text for understanding the exponential growth of the US prison system, and it has become canonical for those active in the US criminal justice reform movement. Now Sabrina Jones has collaborated with Mauer to adapt his seminal book into a vivid graphic narrative designed to reach a mainstream audience. Jones's dramatic artwork adds passion and compassion to the complex story of four decades of prison expansion and its corrosive effect on society.
Reviews / Votes
Selected for the Young Adult Library Services Association's 2014 Great Graphic Novels for Teens List"Jones's gritty illustrations punctuate Mauer's main points. The result is a searing indictment of divisive policies and empty rhetoric. Throughout the short narrative, it is obvious that Mauer and Jones still believe that change can prevail-and that if politicians would only remove the blinders and make much needed investments toward the future, they would see that continued incarceration does nothing to heal the demographic divide."
Shelf Awareness
"Its political and cultural immediacy makes this an excellent title for adults interested in social issues as well as for college students, teens, and tweens. It also serves as a bridge to Mauer's original edition [first published in 1999], since skillful black-and-white visuals from Jones add clarity and vividness to complex issues."
-Library Journal
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Target group
Interest Age: From 14 years
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
1 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 207 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
341 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-59558-541-7 (9781595585417)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
E-Book
04/2013
1st Edition
New Press, The
€26.69
Available for download
Persons
Sabrina Jones is the author of Isadora Duncan: A Graphic Biography and a contributor to World War 3 Illustrated, Wobblies!, The Real Cost of Prisons, Studs Terkel's Working (The New Press), FDR and the New Deal for Beginners, Yiddishkeit, and Radical Jesus. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Marc Mauer is the executive director of The Sentencing Project in Washington, D.C. He is the author of Race to Incarcerate, a semifinalist for the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and the co-editor, with Meda Chesney-Lind, of Invisible Punishment (both available from The New Press). He lives in the Washington, D.C., area. Michelle Alexander is the author of the New York Times bestseller The New Jim Crow.