Locking Up Our Own

Locking Up Our Own

Author	James Forman Jr.
Subjects	Incarceration in the United States African-American studies
Publisher	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date	April 2017
Pages	320
Awards	Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction Lillian Smith Book Award
ISBN	9780374189976
OCLC	1242331020
Dewey Decimal	364.97308996073
LC Class	HV9950
Website	Official website

Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America is a 2017 book by James Forman Jr. on support for the 1970s War on Crime from Black leaders in American cities. It won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and the Lillian Smith Book Award.

Further reading

• Kachka, Boris; Kreizman, Maris (March 21, 2017). "Spring Preview: Letterman, Strout, and 8 More Books We Can't Wait to Read". Vulture. Retrieved July 30, 2020.
• Lartey, Jamiles (April 29, 2017). "'Demolish that lie': James Forman Jr takes on Black Lives Matter backlash". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077.
• "Rev. of Locking Up Our Own". Kirkus Reviews. February 20, 2017. Retrieved July 30, 2020.
• "Rev. of Locking Up Our Own". Publishers Weekly. January 9, 2017. Retrieved July 30, 2020.
• Senior, Jennifer (April 11, 2017). "'Locking Up Our Own,' What Led to Mass Incarceration of Black Men". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.
• Weaver, Vesla M. (October 24, 2017). "The Untold Story of Mass Incarceration". Boston Review. Retrieved July 30, 2020.

External links

• Official website