Author | James Forman Jr. |
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Subjects |
Incarceration in the United States African-American studies |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Publication date | April 2017 |
Pages | 320 |
Awards |
Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction Lillian Smith Book Award |
ISBN | 9780374189976 |
OCLC | 1242331020 |
364.97308996073 | |
LC Class | HV9950 |
Website | Official 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]