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This work 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.As the United States celebrates the nation's "triumph over race" with the election of Barack Obama, the majority of young black men in major American cities are locked behind bars or have been labeled felons for life. Although Jim Crow laws have been wiped off the books, an astounding percentage of the African American community remains trapped in a subordinate status - much like their grandparents before them. In this incisive critique, former litigator-turned-legal-scholar Michelle Alexander provocatively argues that we have not ended racial caste in America: we have simply redesigned it. Alexander shows that, by targeting black men and decimating communities of color, the U.S. criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control, even as it formally adheres to the principle of color blindness. The New Jim Crow challenges the civil rights community - and all of us - to place mass incarceration at the forefront of a new movement for racial justice in America.
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Administration of Criminal justice, Race relations, Race discrimination, African American prisoners, New York Times bestseller, nyt:paperback_nonfiction=2012-01-14, Discrimination in criminal justice administration, Prisoners, Rassendiskriminierung, Social conditions, Strafjustiz, African American men, African Americans, Rasdiskriminering, Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer, Afro-amerikanska fångar, Criminal Law, LAW, Administration of criminal justicePlaces
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El color de la justicia: la nueva segregación racial en Estados Unidos
2017, The New Press
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The new Jim Crow: mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness
2012, New Press, Distributed by Perseus Distribution
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The new Jim Crow: mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness
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Previous ed.: 2010.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-296) and index.
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