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WHY ARE SO MANY BLACK MEN IN PRISON?
A Comprehensive Account of How and Why the Prison Industry Has Become a Predatory Entity in the Lives of African-American Men, and How Mass Targeting, Criminalization, and Incarceration of Black Male Youth Has Gone Toward Creating the Largest Prison System in the World
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Demico Boothe
Published February 1, 2007. ISBN 10: 0-9792953-0-0; ISBN 13: 978-0-9792953-0-0; LCCN: 2007900788; 160 pages.
Retail Price: $14.00
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African-American males are being imprisoned at an alarming and unprecedented rate. Out of the 11 million black adult males in the U.S. population, nearly 1.5 million are in prisons and jails with another 3.5 million on probation or parole or who have previously been on probation or parole. Black males make up the majority of the total prison population, and due to either present or past incarceration is the most socially disenfranchised group of American citizens in the country today. This book details the author's personal story of a negligent upbringing in an impoverished community, his subsequent engagement in criminal activity (drug dealing), his incarceration, and his release from prison and experiencing of the crippling social disenfranchisement that comes with being an ex-felon. The author then relates his personal experiences and realizations to the seminal problems within the African-American community, federal government, and criminal justice system that cause his own experiences to be the same experiences of millions of other young black men.
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THE TOP 25 THINGS BLACK FOLKS DO THAT WE NEED TO STOP!!!
A Breakdown and Analysis of 25 Self-Perpetuated Issues That Adversely Affect the African-American Community
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Demico Boothe & Michael Oryan Obama
Published July 1, 2009. ISBN 10: 0-9792953-2-7; ISBN 13: 978-0-9792953-2-4; LCCN: 2008911817; 248 pages. Retail Price: $18.00
The Top 25 Things Black Folks Do That We Need to STOP!!! is a compilation of acute intellectual censure of certain longstanding belief systems, traditions, and activities that many African-Americans have held and practiced, both historically and presently. In this critical and very well articulated thesis, the authors specify and expound upon 25 problematic issues that are adversely affecting blacks in America. Intended to be a new-age wake up call for Black America, this book is sure to generate not just awareness but also inspiration for what many believe is overdue collective contemplation and self-correction within communities of color all across the nation.
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GETTING OUT & STAYING OUT:
A Black Man's Guide to Success After Prison
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Demico Boothe
Published February 1, 2012. ISBN 10: 0-9792953-5-1; ISBN 13: 978-0-9792953-5-5; LCCN: 2011945130; 72 pages.
Retail Price: $10.00
** BESTSELLER ** The United States of America has more people behind bars than any other country in the world and every year nearly 700,000 prisoners get released back into society, the largest percentage of them being black males. Getting Out & Staying Out is a short, easy to read set of guidelines intended to help incarcerated and newly freed African-American men (a) learn how to most productively do their time while in prison (b) know what to expect once they are released (c) understand that entrepreneurship and self-employment is what their long-term focus should be on instead of a job, and (d) understand the importance of stable relationships and how they aid in successful re-entry. If followed, the advice and suggestions given in this very simple guide should prove very helpful for black men who are serious about getting out of prison and not ever going back.
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| THE DEDICATED EX-PRISONER'S GUIDE TO LIFE AND SUCCESS ON THE OUTSIDE:
10 Rules for Making It in Society After Doing Time
by
Richard Bovan
Published September 15, 2009. ISBN 10: 0-9792953-3-5; ISBN 13: 978-0-9792953-3-1;
LCCN: 2009935348; 86 pages.
Retail Price: $10.00
There are more people incarcerated in the world today than at any other time in history. Every year millions of prisoners are released back into society after having completed their sentences, with the majority of them returning to prison within just a short time after their release. The Dedicated Ex-Prisoner's Guide to Life and Success on the Outside is a 10-rule guidebook for the ex-prisoner who is determined to be successful once released and offers invaluable information on how to overcome the odds of returning to prison. If followed, the advice and suggestions offered in this guide will prove very helpful to all ex-prisoners who are serious about getting out of prison and not ever going back.
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MOCKED, VILIFIED, AND CARICATURED:
A Theological Response for Clinically Depressed African-American Men from the Pulpit of One of America's Oldest Black Churches
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Britt A. Starghill
Published January 15, 2012. ISBN 10: 0-9792953-4-3; ISBN 13: 978-09792953-4-8;
LCCN: 2011939507; 168 pages.
Retail Price: $15.00
Webster’s Dictionary defines an endangered species as “a class of individuals having common attributes and designated by a common name {which is} in danger or peril of probable harm or loss.” This description applies, in a metaphorical sense, to many African-American men in urban areas who are miseducated by the educational system, mishandled by the criminal justice system, mislabeled by the mental health system, and mistreated by the social welfare system. All major institutions of American society have failed to respond appropriately and effectively to African-American men’s needs and problems. Consequently, many African-American men are living with what famed psychologist Kenneth Clark, author of the book Dark Ghetto, coined as the “tangle of pathology”; indicating the moral malaise that produces men whose lives are unequivocally dejected and counter-affluent to most people in the dominant society. The truth is that these men aren’t monsters or hopeless fiends; rather, for the most part, they are men who have experienced various societal and personal traumas that have worked to induce a particular form of depression, which largely goes undiagnosed and untreated. This book is an attempt to inform and empower black communities to understand and work toward healing this pattern of chronic self-perpetuating pathology that has engulfed too many African-American men who are now as a consequence living below society’s radar screens, working and earning wages illegitimately, or deteriorating away in prison.
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