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Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: The New Press (January 16, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1595586431
ISBN-13: 978-1595586438
Product Dimensions: 1 x 6.2 x 9.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
Publisher: The New Press (January 16, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1595586431
ISBN-13: 978-1595586438
Product Dimensions: 1 x 6.2 x 9.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
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.
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Riview
Law Professor Michelle Alexander's long-anticipated debut puts a bright
light directly on what is perhaps our greatest national shame: the
extraordinary rates of incarceration for people of color in the United
States.
Her writing is lucid and gripping; her arguments are clear and concise; her conclusions often are inescapable. She powerfully makes the case that the incarceration industry has become to the 21st Century what Jim Crow segregation was to the 20th: a system that undermines American ideals of justice, while reinforcing social inequality.
In what many hope will be a "post-racial" era, Ms. Alexander's voice is a courageous one. Even as she rightfully celebrates progress at many levels, she refuses to let our society ignore the fact that a million or more people of color are imprisoned today (out of all proportion to their numbers in the population AND even out of all proportion to their rate of criminal offenses, as documented by the government).
More importantly, she dares to ask (and attempts to answer) the simple question: how can this be happening in our country today?
Impeccably well-argued, "The New Jim Crow" is an inspired work - representing the debut of a bright, new and important voice in American life and letters.
Her writing is lucid and gripping; her arguments are clear and concise; her conclusions often are inescapable. She powerfully makes the case that the incarceration industry has become to the 21st Century what Jim Crow segregation was to the 20th: a system that undermines American ideals of justice, while reinforcing social inequality.
In what many hope will be a "post-racial" era, Ms. Alexander's voice is a courageous one. Even as she rightfully celebrates progress at many levels, she refuses to let our society ignore the fact that a million or more people of color are imprisoned today (out of all proportion to their numbers in the population AND even out of all proportion to their rate of criminal offenses, as documented by the government).
More importantly, she dares to ask (and attempts to answer) the simple question: how can this be happening in our country today?
Impeccably well-argued, "The New Jim Crow" is an inspired work - representing the debut of a bright, new and important voice in American life and letters.
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