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

5.0

“In the era of colorblindness, it is no longer socially permissible to use race, explicitly, as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and social contempt. So we don’t. Rather than rely on race, we use our criminal justice system to label people of color “criminals” and then engage in all the practices we supposedly left behind. Today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against criminals in nearly all the ways that it was once legal to discriminate against African Americans.”

The New Jim Crow is an excellent work.