The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Michelle Alexander

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced

377 pages | first published 2010

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It is in no small part thanks to Alexander's account that civil rights organizations such as Black Lives Matter have focused so much of their energy on the criminal justice system. Seldom does a book have the impact of Michelle Alexander's The New...
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