Algernon Austin presents an excellent, concise, and wonderfully read scholarly examination of the complicated landscape of race, class and popular perception. Besides the prison industrial complex, black strides in education, poverty rates, crime and other indices contradict claims that blacks are “moving backward.”--Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar, Director, Institute for African American Studies, University of Connecticut and author of Black Power: Radical Politics and African American Identity (The Johns Hopkins University Press), 2004 and Hip-Hop Revolution: The Culture and Politics of Rap (University Press of Kansas), 2007.
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In addition to being the Director of the Thora Institute LLC, Algernon Austin is now the Director of the Program on Race, Ethnicity and the Economy of the Economic Policy Institute. A post on black public opinion is coming soon. In the meantime, please read Austin's EPI work "What a Recession Means for Blacks."
