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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness is a 2010 book by Michelle Alexander, a civil rights litigator and legal scholar. The book discusses race-related issues specific to African-American males and mass incarceration in the United States, but Alexander noted that the discrimination faced by African-American males is ...
- Michelle Alexander
- 2010; new edition 2020
- 2010
- Non-fiction
Jan 17, 2020 · David Remnick interviews Michelle Alexander about the tenth anniversary of “The New Jim Crow” and how perception of the criminal-justice system has changed in America for The New Yorker...
The New Jim Crow is a stunning account of the rebirth of a caste-like system in the United States, one that has resulted in millions of African Americans locked behind bars and then relegated to a permanent second-class status—denied the very rights supposedly won in the Civil Rights Movement.
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The New Jim Crow challenges the civil rights community — and all of us — to place mass incarceration at the forefront of a new movement for racial justice in America. [Publisher’s description.] A longtime civil rights advocate and litigator, Michelle Alexander was a 2005 Soros Justice Fellow.
Michelle Alexander is a highly acclaimed civil rights lawyer, advocate, legal scholar and author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness — the bestselling book that helped to transform the national debate on racial and criminal justice in the United States.
Jan 5, 2010 · The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colourblindness. Michelle Alexander. 4.52. 107,729 ratings10,650 reviews. The New York Times bestseller and 'Bible of a social movement' (San Francisco Chronicle)
The New Jim Crow is a stunning account of the rebirth of a caste-like system in the United States, one that has resulted in millions of African Americans locked ...