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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Invisible Men: Mass Incarceration and the Myth of Black ProgressBy Ronald C SmithThis is an excellent and thoughtful approach to viewing what is really going on in America with incarceration of Black males and the ramifications of the practice. Professor Pettit; amply demonstrates through careful examination of incarceration patterns; coupled with census counting practices and community impacts of incarceration of young black males that there are not only flaws in America's "justice" system; but there are serious flaws in how the household community counts of the census; omit gross numbers of inmates because they are not counted. She demonstrates the this miscount or omission; gives false numbers and percentages of; for instance; high school dropouts. If the census counted inmates; they would discover the high school dropout rate is 40%! This represents a gross undercounting of black high school dropouts.and demonstrates there is not a narrowing of the gap between black and white high school drops.Tthere are many other social and political effects of the undercounting of inmates that professor Pettit discovers and the book should be read by all people interested in eliminating discrimination in America.9 of 10 people found the following review helpful. Very importantBy doug kortyThis is a very important and well done book that shows how the high rates of incarceration of black men have obscured many measures of social progress. This aspect of our society -- race; crime; incarceration; poverty; etc. is critical to our democracy and the possibility of improving our society. The book should be read by many people. Other books worth reading:Alexander; Michelle; The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness; The New Press; 2010Clear; Todd R.; Imprisoning Communities: How Mass Incarceration Makes Disadvantaged Neighborhoods Worse (Studies in Crime and Public Policy); by Oxford University Press; 2009Clear; Todd R.; The Punishment Imperative: The Rise and Failure of Mass Incarceration in America; NYU Press; 2013Currie; Elliott; Crime and Punishment in America; by Elliott Currie; Picador; First Owl Book Edition; 1998Dattel; Gene; Cotton and Race in the Making of America: The Human Costs of Economic Power; Ivan R. Dee; 2009Drucker; Ernest; A Plague of Prisons: The Epidemiology of Mass Incarceration in America; The New Press; 2011Hahn; Steven; A Nation under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration; Belknap Press of Harvard University Press; 2005Klinkner; Philip A.; and Rogers M. Smith; The Unsteady March: The Rise and Decline of Racial Equality in America; University Of Chicago Press; 2002Kozol; Jonathan; Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools; Broadway Books; Reprint edition; 2012Loewen; James W.; Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism; Touchstone; 2006Manza; Jeff; Locked Out: Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy (Studies in Crime and Public Policy); Oxford University Press; 2006Massey; Douglas S.; American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass; Harvard University Press; 1993Painter; Nell Irvin; Creating Black Americans; Oxford University Press; 2006Petersilia; Joan; When Prisoners Come Home: Parole and Prisoner Reentry (Studies in Crime and Public Policy); Oxford University Press; 2009Stuntz; William J.; The Collapse of American Criminal Justice; The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press; 2011Sugrue; Thomas J; Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North; Random House; 2008Tonry; Michael H.; Malign Neglect: Race; Crime; and Punishment in America; Oxford University Press; USA (January 19; 1995Tonry; Michael H.; Punishing Race: A Continuing American Dilemma (Studies in Crime and Public Policy); Oxford University Press; 2011Tonry; Michael H.; Thinking about Crime: Sense and Sensibility in American Penal Culture (Studies in Crime and Public Policy); Oxford University Press; 2004Western; Bruce; Punishment and Inequality in America; Russell Sage Foundation Publications; 2007Whitman; James Q.; Harsh Justice: Criminal Punishment and the Widening Divide between America and Europe; Oxford University Press; USA; 2005Wilkerson; Isabel; The Warmth of Other Suns:The Epic Story of America's Great Migration; Vintage; 2011Woodward; C. Vann; The Strange Career of Jim Crow; Oxford University Press; 20010 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A Must Read...For White PeopleBy Errol DanielsIt's very simple...every white person should read this; along with other books such as The New Jim Crow. This book is well written and the author's writing style is excellent. She is an expert in her field.