The New Jim Crow
by Michelle Alexander
Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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Synopsis
"Jarvious Cotton's great-great-grandfather could not vote as a slave. His great-grandfather was beaten to death by the Klu Klux Klan for attempting to vote. His grandfather was prevented from voting by Klan intimidation; his father was barred by poll taxes and literacy tests. Today, Cotton cannot vote because he, like many black men in the United States, has been labeled a felon and is currently on parole." As the United States celebrates the nation's... more
About Michelle Alexander
Published: January 10, 2010 by New Press
Genre: Political & Social Sciences, History. Non-fiction. 290 pages
Critic Reviews for The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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Friends of Justice | 4 Aug 2010
On virtually every page she drives her thinking deeper than previous writers have been willing to go, backing up her conclusions with rock-solid scholarship....If you can only afford to buy one book this year, make it The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.
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BC Books | 26 Jul 2011
She has exposed for all to see that racial caste is alive and well in America. If you care even a little about racial justice, The New Jim Crow should be on your bookshelf. It is the most important book you will read this year.
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Eurweb | 6 Mar 2012
Alexander’s The New Jim Crow has started a much needed discussion around the world...This book is a call to action, a book that I highly recommend.
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The Curvature | 6 Dec 2011
And yet, this book is still invaluable in what it does accomplish: a vital primer for how racism and white supremacy function at all levels of the criminal justice system...a necessary read for anyone whose vision of social justice hopes to actually address race as a major axis of oppression in the United States.
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Freedom Socialist Party | 1 Feb 2012
Michelle Alexander’s new book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color-blindness is a compelling exposé of deep racism in the U.S. criminal justice system.
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Boston Review | 1 Jan 2011
But while these authors show that the analogy has much to recommend it, is it entirely accurate? And if it’s wrong or incomplete, what does that mean for how we think about—and think about challenging—mass incarceration?
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Equal Justice Society | 1 Dec 2010
Densely written yet eminently readable, the book is loaded with persuasive evidence, including historical parallels to previous racial caste systems...
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Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books | 1 Mar 2012
It is troubling to call The New Jim Crow...satisfying, because the message it conveys is so disturbing. Yet, the work is a fine achievement because it forces the reader to view the present alongside an era we thought we left far behind, rendering the devastation of the New Jim Crow.
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International Socialist Review | 1 Sep 2010
Michelle Alexander’s book, The New Jim Crow, is a must-read for anyone trying to come to grips with the explosive growth of America’s prison population in the past three decades—and how this growth relates to the racial disparity in imprisonment.
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David Hilfiker | 1 Oct 2011
Alexander’s book is very disturbing, and I wouldn’t expect you’d be able to digest the whole thing immediately. But her book is the most important work in the fields of race and poverty in decades.
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