![]() ![]() ![]() Harris’ book, A Pound of Flesh: Monetary Sanctions as a Punishment for the Poor details how fines sentenced to defendants often put an undue burden on disadvantaged populations. Her research is centered on issues of inequality, poverty and race. criminal justice system, including juvenile justice, case processing outcomes and monetary sanctions. Moderated by Alexes Harris. Alexes Harris, Ph.D., is the Presidential Term Professor and professor of Sociology at the University of Washington. She pulls back the veil that has long covered actions made in the name of protecting democracy, fiscal responsibility, or protection against fraud, and renders visible the long lineage of White rage, adding an important new dimension to the national conversation about race in America. Anderson carefully links these and other historical flashpoints when social progress for African Americans was countered by deliberate and cleverly crafted opposition. Then there was the so-called Southern Strategy and the War on Drugs that disenfranchised millions of African Americans while propelling presidents Nixon and Reagan into the White House. ![]() The end of the Civil War and Reconstruction was greeted with the Black Codes and Jim Crow. ![]() Since the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, every time African Americans have made advances towards full participation in our democracy, White reaction has fueled a deliberate and relentless rollback of their gains. ![]()
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