Locking Up Our Own

2017 book

9780374189976OCLC1242331020

Dewey Decimal

364.97308996073LC ClassHV9950WebsiteOfficial website

Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America is a 2017 book by James Forman Jr. on support for the 1970s War on Crime from Black leaders in American cities. It won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction^[1] and the Lillian Smith Book Award.^[2]

References

^ "Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America, by James Forman Jr. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)". pulitzer.org. Retrieved November 12, 2020.
^ "Professors from Yale, Duke universities named Lillian Smith Book Award winners". news.uga.edu. June 22, 2018. Retrieved November 12, 2020.

Further reading

Kachka, Boris; Kreizman, Maris (March 21, 2017). "Spring Preview: Letterman, Strout, and 8 More Books We Can't Wait to Read". Vulture. Retrieved July 30, 2020.
Lartey, Jamiles (April 29, 2017). "'Demolish that lie': James Forman Jr takes on Black Lives Matter backlash". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077.
"Rev. of Locking Up Our Own". Kirkus Reviews. February 20, 2017. Retrieved July 30, 2020.
"Rev. of Locking Up Our Own". Publishers Weekly. January 9, 2017. Retrieved July 30, 2020.
Senior, Jennifer (April 11, 2017). "'Locking Up Our Own,' What Led to Mass Incarceration of Black Men". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.
Weaver, Vesla M. (October 24, 2017). "The Untold Story of Mass Incarceration". Boston Review. Retrieved July 30, 2020.

External links

Official website

v
t
e

Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (2001–2025)

Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix (2001)
Carry Me Home by Diane McWhorter (2002)
"A Problem from Hell" by Samantha Power (2003)
Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum (2004)
Ghost Wars by Steve Coll (2005)
Imperial Reckoning by Caroline Elkins (2006)
The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright (2007)
The Years of Extermination by Saul Friedländer (2008)
Slavery by Another Name by Douglas A. Blackmon (2009)
The Dead Hand by David E. Hoffman (2010)
The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee (2011)
The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt (2012)
Devil in the Grove by Gilbert King (2013)
Toms River by Dan Fagin (2014)
The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert (2015)
Black Flags by Joby Warrick (2016)
Evicted by Matthew Desmond (2017)
Locking Up Our Own by James Forman Jr. (2018)
Amity and Prosperity by Eliza Griswold (2019)
The End of the Myth by Greg Grandin / The Undying by Anne Boyer (2020)
Wilmington's Lie by David Zucchino (2021)
Invisible Child by Andrea Elliott (2022)
His Name Is George Floyd by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa (2023)
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy by Nathan Thrall (2024)

Complete list
(1962–1975)
(1976–2000)
(2001–2025)

This article about a non-fiction book on African-American topics is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

v
t
e

frontpage hit counter