Book Summary: Parchman Farm And The Ordeal Of Jim Crow Justice

There are four books that I would like to introduce that contain information and statistics about criminality and African American culture in general. Worse than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice by David Oshinsky. Which draws from first hand accounts from prison records and oral histories to discuss the conditions that African Americans faced in prisons in Mississippi. Dr Muhammad's book doesn't go in depth into what the conditions were inside the prisons for African Americans and this book shows the brutal conditions African Americans faced. Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II, by Douglas Blackmon. The book is an account of what happened post civil war

The third book is The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness from Michelle Alexander. The book discusses African Americans in the criminal justice system and how the system is used as racial control and how although it claims to be colorblind it clearly is not. The roots of Dr Muhammad's book can be seen in Alexander’s book. Which was written several years after. The fourth and final book is Black Stats: African American by the numbers in the 21st century written by Monique Morris. Black Stats contains facts and figures on African Americans including incarceration rates, voting habits and employment rates. “A compilation that at once highlights measures of incredible progress and enumerates the disparate impacts of social policies and practices.” (Morris). Morris’ book provided statistics and information about African Americans and the impact of social policies had on African Americans throughout the years. Much like Dr Muhammad’s book which showed how social policies of the early 20th century had on African Americans in the post civil war era and how criminality was involved through it