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The Politics of Theft: Economic Inequality and the Forgotten Work Force
- Dissent
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Volume 59, Number 3, Summer 2012
- pp. 70-74
- 10.1353/dss.2012.0057
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By now, most leftists and much of mainstream America are familiar with the story of what Representative Donna Edwards calls “the greatest wealth transfer in the history of American kind if not of mankind.” They are not so familiar with the latest “great migration,” the forced transfer of millions of men (and more and more women) of color out of their communities and into prisons.