What to Read After Lockdown America
Readers who loved Lockdown America by Christian Parenti keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Lockdown America is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Lockdown America
Are Prisons Obsolete?
Golden Gulag
Live from death row
Direct Action
The New Jim Crow
Cold War Civil Rights
Our enemies in blue
I've Got the Light of Freedom
Texas tough
Newjack
Abolition democracy
To Serve God and Wal-Mart
America's war for the greater Middle East
Resistance Behind Bars
The condemnation of blackness
Rich Get Richer and The Poor Get Prison, The (8th Edition)
Inside This Place, Not of It
Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison
From Poor Law to Welfare State, 6th Edition
Death Blossoms
Human Smoke
How Nonviolence Protects the State
How the Irish became White
The Power of women and the subversion of the community