The new Jim Crow [electronic resource] : mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness / Michelle Alexander ; [with a new foreword by Cornel West].
Argues that the War on Drugs and policies that deny convicted felons equal access to employment, housing, education, and public benefits create a permanent under caste based largely on race.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781595588197
- ISBN: 1595588191
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 312 pages)
- Edition: Rev. ed.
- Publisher: New York, N.Y. : New Press, 2012.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 1. The rebirth of caste -- 2. The lockdown -- 3. The color of justice -- 4. The cruel hand -- 5. The new Jim Crow -- 6. The fire this time. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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The New Jim Crow : Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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The New Jim Crow : Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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 conscience.