The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Description: Once in a great while a book comes along that changes the way we see the world and helps to fuel a nationwide social movement. The New Jim Crow is such a book. 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 co ... (more)

Manufacturer: The New Press
Release date: 16 January 2012
ISBN-10 : 1595586431 | ISBN-13: 9781595586438

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