Bibliograph

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

Type

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

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The New Jim Crow

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Sub title

Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Summary

Once in a great while a book comes along that changes the way we see the world and helps to fuel a nationwide social movement. The New Jim Crow is such a book. This book directly challenges the notion that the election of Barack Obama signals a new era of colorblindness. With dazzling candor, legal scholar Michelle Alexander argues that 'we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.' By targeting black men through the War on Drugs and decimating communities of color, the U.S. criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control-relegating millions to a permanent second-class status-even as it formally adheres to the principle of colorblindness. In the words of Benjamin Todd Jealous, president and CEO of the NAACP, this book is a 'call to action.'

Target audience

adult

Classification