The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colourblindness (Revised Edition) by Michelle Alexander

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colourblindness (Revised Edition)

Michelle Alexander

312 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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"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 p...

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