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The New Jim Crow

Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, 10th Anniversary Edition

by Michelle Alexander
Karen Chilton
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Seldom does a book have the impact of Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow.
Since it was first published in 2010, it has been cited in judicial decisions and has been
adopted in campus-wide and community-wide reads; it helped inspire the creation of
the Marshall Project and the new $100 million Art for Justice Fund; it has been the
winner of numerous prizes, including the prestigious NAACP Image Award; and it has
spent nearly 250 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.
Most important of all, it has spawned a whole generation of criminal justice
reform activists and organizations motivated by Michelle Alexander's unforgettable
argument that "we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned
it." As the Birmingham News proclaimed, it is "undoubtedly the most important book
published in this century about the U.S."
Now, ten years after it was first published, The New Press is proud to issue a
tenth-anniversary edition with a new preface by Michelle Alexander that discusses the
impact the book has had and the state of the criminal justice reform movement today.

  • Creators

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    July 1, 2012

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781464046162
      • File size: 488190 KB
      • Duration: 16:57:03

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • Lexile® Measure: 1390
    • Text Difficulty: 12

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from November 2, 2009
      Contrary to the rosy picture of race embodied in Barack Obama's political success and Oprah Winfrey's financial success, legal scholar Alexander argues vigorously and persuasively that “e have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.” Jim Crow and legal racial segregation has been replaced by mass incarceration as “a system of social control” (“More African Americans are under correctional control today... than were enslaved in 1850”). Alexander reviews American racial history from the colonies to the Clinton administration, delineating its transformation into the “war on drugs.” She offers an acute analysis of the effect of this mass incarceration upon former inmates “who will be discriminated against, legally, for the rest of their lives, denied employment, housing, education, and public benefits.” Most provocatively, she reveals how both the move toward colorblindness and affirmative action may blur our vision of injustice: “most Americans know and don't know the truth about mass incarceration”—but her carefully researched, deeply engaging, and thoroughly readable book should change that.

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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Languages

  • English

Levels

  • Lexile® Measure:1390
  • Text Difficulty:12

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