Locking Up Our Own

Locking Up Our Own
The book cover for Locking Up Our Own
AuthorJames Forman Jr.
SubjectsIncarceration in the United States
African-American studies
PublisherFarrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication dateApril 2017
Pages320
AwardsPulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
Lillian Smith Book Award
ISBN9780374189976
OCLC1242331020
Dewey Decimal364.97308996073
LC ClassHV9950
WebsiteOfficial 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[1] and the Lillian Smith Book Award.[2] The book was also longlisted for the 2017 National Book Award for Nonfiction.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America, by James Forman Jr. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)". pulitzer.org. Retrieved November 12, 2020.
  2. ↑ "Professors from Yale, Duke universities named Lillian Smith Book Award winners". news.uga.edu. June 22, 2018. Retrieved November 12, 2020.
  3. ↑ "The National Book Awards Longlist: Nonfiction". The New Yorker. September 14, 2017. Retrieved May 5, 2026.

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