Race to Incarcerate
Marc Mauer’s landmark book on race, class, and the criminal justice system—made accessible as a brilliant work of inspired graphic storytelling
“Do not underestimate the power of the book you are holding in your hands.” —Michelle Alexander
Selected, YALSA Great Graphic Novels for Teens list
More than 2 million people are now imprisoned in the United States, producing the highest rate of incarceration in the world. How did this happen? As the former director of The Sentencing Project, Marc Mauer has long been one of the country’s foremost experts uncovering the answer to this question.
Now, Sabrina Jones has collaborated with Mauer to adapt and update his seminal work Race to Incarcerate into a vivid and compelling comics narrative. Jones’s dramatic artwork adds passion to the complex story of the penal system’s shift from rehabilitation to punishment and the ensuing four decades of prison expansion, its interplay with the devastating “War on Drugs, ” and its corrosive effect on generations of Americans.
With a preface by Mauer and a foreword by The New Jim Crow author Michelle Alexander, Race to Incarcerate: A Graphic Retelling elegantly interweaves personal stories and sobering facts to present a compelling argument about mass incarceration’s tragic impact on communities of color. If current trends continue, one in every three Black males and one in every six Latino males born today can expect to face time in prison. The race to incarcerate is not only a failed social policy, but also one that prevents a just, diverse society from flourishing.
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