An edition of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (2000)

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Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

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An edition of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (2000)

The New Jim Crow

Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Tenth anniversary edition

by

  • ★★★★ 4.2 (34 ratings)
  • 447 Want to read
  • 28 Currently reading
  • 40 Have read

"Seldom does a book have the impact of The New Jim Crow. Since it was first published in 2010, it has been the winner of numerous awards and has spent nearly 250 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. It has been cited in judicial decisions, read in countless faith-based and secular book clubs, and adopted in campus-wide and community-wide reads. Most important, it has inspired artists, philanthropists, policymakers, community leaders, and a whole generation of racial justice activists motivated by Michelle Alexander's searing indictment of our criminal justice system and her unforgettable argument that 'we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it'"--Back cover

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Amadou Diallo Whren Mcklesky President Nixon Ronald Reagan President Bill Clinton President Obama Alberta Spruill Emma Faye Stewart

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Published in
New York
Copyright Date
2020

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
364.973
Library of Congress
HV9950 .A437 2020eb, HV9950 .A437 2020

The Physical Object

Format
paperback
Pagination
xlix, 377 pages
Number of pages
352

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL28151133M
ISBN 10
1620971933
ISBN 13
9781620971932
OCLC/WorldCat
1130906008, 1132431777

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Work ID
OL13826369W

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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness is a 2010 book by Michelle Alexander, a civil rights litigator and legal scholar. The book discusses race-related issues specific to African-American males and mass incarceration in the United States, but Alexander noted that the discrimination faced by African-American males is prevalent among other minorities and socio-economically disadvantaged populations. Alexander's central premise, from which the book derives its title, is that "mass incarceration is, metaphorically, the New Jim Crow". --wikipedia

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