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Apr 29, 2014 · April 29, 2014. by. Sarah Childress. Michelle Alexander is the author of the bestseller The New Jim Crow, and a civil-rights advocate, lawyer, legal scholar and professor. She spoke with...
Yet as civil-rights-lawyer-turned-legal-scholar Michelle Alexander demonstrates, it is perfectly legal to discriminate against convicted criminals in nearly all the ways in which it was once legal to discriminate against African Americans.
The New Jim Crow - Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Michelle Alexander. “One of the most influential books of the last 20 years.”. — Chronicle of Higher Education. “Two years after Obama’s election, Alexander put the entire criminal justice system on trial, exposing racial discrimination from lawmaking to policing to ...
Jul 23, 2019 · The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander review – clear-eyed and distressing. This important book, first published in America nearly 10 years ago, explains how the US justice system works against...
Jan 11, 2016 · Michelle Alexander—activist, author of the New York Times bestseller The New Jim Crow, and Ford Foundation senior fellow —spoke to staff about the state of racial justice in America. Here are some highlights from her candid and very timely talk.
Michelle Alexander is a civil rights lawyer and advocate, a legal scholar and the author of the New York Times best seller “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.”
Jan 7, 2020 · — Kirkus Reviews Michelle Alexander’s brave and bold new book paints a haunting picture in which dreary felon garb, post-prison joblessness, and loss of voting rights now do the stigmatizing work once done by colored-only water fountains and legally segregated schools. With dazzling candor, Alexander argues that we all pay the cost of the ...
