African American men and the prison industrial complex

Western Journal of Black Studies

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 387-398

  Smith, Earl ^a   Hattery, Angela J ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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