I have got to stop reading books about insidiously bad things are that are 90% the problem and only 10% a movement towards solutions.
The hardest part about systemic, intractable problems is that they are systemic and intractable. Alexander does an amazing job laying out how mass incarceration functions as a form of racist control. It's a frustrating read, but no less vital, because it frames the way we think out the work we must do to make the world better.