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

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 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." Called "stunning" by Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David Levering Lewis, "invaluable" by the Daily Kos, "explosive" by Kirkus, and "profoundly necessary" by the Miami Herald, this updated and revised paperback edition of The New Jim Crow, now with a foreword by Cornel West, is a must-read for all people of

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Book Title: New Jim Crow : Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Number of Pages: 312 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: New Press, T.H.E.

Topic: Discrimination & Race Relations, Civil Rights, General, Penology, Criminology, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, Criminal Law / Sentencing

Item Height: 0.9 in

Publication Year: 2012

Illustrator: Yes

Genre: Law, Political Science, Social Science

Item Weight: 16.6 Oz

Item Length: 9.3 in

Author: Michelle Alexander

Item Width: 6.1 in

Format: Trade Paperback