The 9:15 AM Sunday Adult Religious Education Class will meet this week (Sunday, 8 November 2015).
We will be discussing Chapter 3 (“The Color of Justice”) in the book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander. This chapter looks at the role of race in the criminal justice system:
Given the relatively balanced rate of criminal activity by whites and blacks, how does a supposedly race-neutral system round up, arrest, and imprison such a large number of black and brown men?
