Book Review: The Impact of Racism on African American Families: Literature as Social Science

Alexander Michelle . 2011. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. New York: New Press.

Kochhar Rakesh Fry Richard . 2014. “Wealth Inequality Has Widened along Racial, Ethnic Lines since End of Great Recession.” Washington, DC: Pew Research Center. Retrieved July 26, 2015 (http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/12/12/racial-wealth-gaps-great-recession/).

Macartney Suzanne Bishaw Alemayehu Fontenot Kayla . 2013. “Poverty Rates for Selected Detailed Race and Hispanic Groups by State and Place: 2007–2011.” Washington, DC: U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved July 26, 2015 (https://www.census.gov/prod/2013pubs/acsbr11-17.pdf).

Peterson Ruth D. Krivo Lauren J. 2010. Divergent Social Worlds: Neighborhood Crime and the Racial-Spatial Divide. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

Pettit Becky Western Bruce . 2004. “Mass Imprisonment and the Life Course: Race and Class Inequality in US Incarceration.” American Sociological Review 69(2):151–69.

Tonry Michael . 2011. Punishing Race: A Continuing American Dilemma. New York: Oxford University Press.

Wildeman Christopher . 2009. “Parental Imprisonment, the Prison Boom, and the Concentration of Childhood Disadvantage.” Demography 46(2):265–80.