In "Brothers and Keepers" John Edgar Wideman portrays a contrast between the lives of himself as award-winning novelist and his younger brother Robby serving a life-sentence for robbery and murder.
Jack Johnson = Alpha male imprisoned (criminalized) after refusing to acknowledge the hierarchy of "white" alpha males.
The thirteenth amendment to the US constitution reads:
"Neither slavery, nor involuntary servitude except as a punishment for crime where of the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States or any place subject to their jurisdiction." = "20th-century slaves."
The African Ink Road is evidence that an economy based on scholarship is viable. People who are in prisons could turn into the forefront of a new economic system.
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