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In Their Own Words: Prosecutors on the Politics of Backlash
Law &Policy, Volume 48, Issue 4, October 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines the politicization of the criminal justice system in the United States, focusing on local prosecutorial reform. While progressive and conservative prosecutors have initiated reforms in jurisdictions throughout the United States for years, violent and antidemocratic backlash against prosecutors and judges alike has taken ...
Joshua M. Davis, Whitney K. Taylor
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The Opioid Crisis: Maintaining White Privilege Through Race‐Neutral Policy
Sociology Compass, Volume 20, Issue 10, October 2026.ABSTRACT U.S. drug policy has shifted significantly with the opioid crisis. Prior to the year 2000, the “War on Drugs” overtly and aggressively criminalized minorities, most notably Black Americans, whereas nowadays, the U.S. government claims to prioritize universal public health.
Gioia Greco, Shelley Z. Reuter
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American Journal of Community Psychology, Volume 78, Issue 1-2, Page 309-321, September 2026.Abstract Racism and sexism are associated with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and substance use disorder (SUD), yet few studies examine their role in co‐occurring PTSD/SUD. Through qualitative interviews with 23 people of color with PTSD/SUD, we found that racism and sexism influence the onset of men and women of color's PTSD/SUD in gendered ways.
Mallet R. Reid +6 more
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RACIAL CRITIQUES OF MASS INCARCERATION: BEYOND THE NEW JIM CROW
, 2012 In the last decade, a number of scholars have called the American criminal justice system a new form of Jim Crow. These writers have effectively drawn attention to the injustices created by a facially race-neutral system that severely ostracizes ...
FORMAN, JAMES
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, 2015 Throughout the project we have worked on a comparison between what we consider old and modern jim crow laws. whereas the old jim crow laws were targeted towards the negro minority, the modern variant targets felons in the US.
Andreassen, Toke +4 more
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Gift Exchange as Communal Resistance in Ernest Gaines’s A Lesson Before Dying
NANO, 2017 This article examines the representation of gift exchange in Ernest Gaines’s novel, A Lesson Before Dying. Drawing upon sociological and anthropological theories of the gift, it argues that gift exchange among the black community in the fictional town of
Scott Thomas Gibson
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Using Celebrity to Advance Equality
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Alfred Archer
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Journal of Community &Applied Social Psychology, Volume 36, Issue 5, September/October 2026.ABSTRACT This paper draws on oral history interviews conducted in 2025 with Lebanese and Arab American immigrants and their descendants, archived at the Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies (GR0020, NC State University), to develop a cultural‐psychological framework for understanding the psychic dimensions of migration without ...
Anastasia Christou
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CRÍTICAS RACIALES AL ENCARCELAMIENTO MASIVO: MÁS ALLÁ DE UN “NUEVO JIM CROW”
, 2012 Durante la última década, una cierta cantidad de académicos han llamado al sistema penal estadounidense un nuevo tipo de Jim Crow. Estos autores han exitosamente llamado la atención sobre las injusticias creadas por un sistema supuestamente neutral en ...
FORMAN, JAMES
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Jim Crow Gothic: Richard Wright's Southern Nightmare
, 2016 African American author Richard Wright is best known for his novels dealing with the early twentieth-century urban ghetto, such as Native Son (1940) and The Outsider (1953), both of which draw extensively on the Gothic.
Soltysik Monnet, A.
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