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

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Label

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

Title remainder

Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Creator

• Alexander, Michelle

Contributor

• hoopla digital

Subject

• African American prisoners -- United States
• Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States
• Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States
• African American men -- Social conditions
• United States -- Race relations
• Race discrimination -- United States

Language

eng

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.'

Cataloging source

Midwest

Dewey number

364.973

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Target audience

adult