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Author Gaskew, Tony

Title Rethinking prison reentry : transforming humiliation into humility / Tony Gaskew
Published Lanham : Lexington Books, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 191 pages)
Contents The killing fields of Chicago -- Uncovering Black cultural privilege -- The great white shark -- Jim Crow Jr. -- Are you a 30 percenter or a 70 percenter?
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 165 -178) and index
Notes English
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Subject African American prisoners.
African American men -- Social conditions
Crime -- United States -- Sociological aspects
Criminals -- Rehabilitation -- United States
Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology.
African American men -- Social conditions
African American prisoners
Crime -- Sociological aspects
Criminals -- Rehabilitation
Discrimination in criminal justice administration
United States
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021675867
ISBN 9780739183137
0739183133
1498501672
9781498501675