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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
48 reviews
rapunzelholly's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Racism
Moderate: Violence
lizziaha's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Drug use, Gun violence, Racism, Slavery, and Police brutality
ericadawson's review against another edition
4.5
To me, though, Alexander takes an approach to white people's complicity in white supremacy/anti-Blackness that does too much to reduce their own responsibility--collectively and as individuals--in a) the support for the structures that exist to hold Black people down, and b) the refusal (passive or active) to dismantle them. Perhaps because this book was written in what I'd now call a wildly different time from ours--it was 2010, Obama was the first Black president, the word "postracial" was taken seriously, and from what I can see/remember, none of what exists now in the uber-racist 2023 was part of the mainstream conversation 13 years ago. Hindsight and the current political climate might be tainting how I receive this book. I hope so. I cannot fathom being expected to be as concerned for poor white people's racist tendencies and economic plight as I am for the pain and violence I and other Black people experience at their hands, under the system they helped build.
Graphic: Racism
emmablue's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Racism and Police brutality
Moderate: Death, Drug use, Hate crime, and Slavery
alyssa_s10's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Confinement, Racism, and Police brutality
Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, and Slavery
Minor: Addiction
maddierose_m's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Racism
kayleighr's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Racism and Violence
Moderate: Death, Drug use, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Slavery, and Murder
Minor: Addiction
aprilpie's review against another edition
4.0
Moderate: Racism, Slavery, Violence, Police brutality, and War
sarahrosea's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Drug use, Racism, Police brutality, and Classism
Moderate: Violence, Police brutality, and War
random19379's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, and Classism
Moderate: Confinement, Genocide, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, and Acephobia/Arophobia
Minor: Ableism and Slavery