The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of ColorblindnessCreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015 M04 22 - 154 pages Praised by Harvard Law professor Lani Guinier as "brave and bold," this book directly challenges the notion that the election of Barack Obama signals a new era of colorblindness. With dazzling candor, legal scholar Michelle Alexander argues that "we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it." By targeting black men through the War on Drugs and decimating communities of color, the U.S. criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control-relegating millions to a permanent second-class status-even as it formally adheres to the principle of colorblindness. In the words of Benjamin Todd Jealous, president and CEO of the NAACP, this book is a "call to action." |
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Michelle Alexander Limited preview - 2020 |
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Michelle Alexander Limited preview - 2012 |