Locking up our own: crime and punishment in black America

Part I: Origins

1. Gateway to the war on drugs: marijuana, 1975

2. Black lives matter: gun control, 1975

3. Representatives of their race: the rise of African American police, 1948-78

Part II: Consequences

4. "Locking up thugs is not vindictive": sentencing, 1981-82

5. "The worst thing to hit us since slavery": crack and the advent of warrior policing, 1988-92

6. What would Martin Luther King, Jr., say?: stop and search, 1995

Epilogue: The reach of our mercy, 2014-16.

Origins. Gateway to the war on drugs : marijuana, 1975 ; Black lives matter : gun control, 1975 ; Representatives of their race : the rise of African American police, 1948-78

Consequences. "Locking up thugs is not vindictive" : sentencing, 1981-82 ; "The worst thing to hit us since slavery" : crack and the advent of warrior policing, 1988-92 ; What would Martin Luther King, Jr., say? : stop and search, 1995

The reach of our mercy, 2014-16.