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Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xii, 203 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
A groundbreaking expose about the alarming use of rap lyrics as criminal evidence to convict and incarcerate young men of color.
Should Johnny Cash have been charged with murder after he sang, "I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die"? Few would seriously subscribe to this notion of justice. Yet in 2001, a rapper named Mac whose music had gained national recognition was convicted of manslaughter after the prosecutor quoted liberally from his album...
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