Tommie Shelby Books
Dark ghettos
"Why do ghettos persist?" Tommie Shelby asks in Dark Ghettos. Today, ghettos are widely seen as social problems that public policy should aim to solve. Shelby calls this the "medical model" because...
Read MoreTo shape a new world
By Tommie Shelby, Brandon M. Terry
Martin Luther King, Jr., may be America's most revered political figure, commemorated in statues, celebrations, and streets names around the world. On the fiftieth anniversary of King's assassinati...
Read MoreRace, Incarceration, and American Values
By Tommie Shelby, Pamela S. Karlan, Glenn C. Loury, Loic Wacquant
Why stigmatizing and confining a large segment of our population should be unacceptable to all Americans.The United States, home to five percent of the world's population, now houses twenty-five pe...
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