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

Statement of responsibility

Michelle Alexander

Title variation

Mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness

Creator

• Alexander, Michelle

Contributor

• West, Cornel

Author

• Alexander, Michelle

Subject

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

Language

eng

Summary

Law professor Alexander argues that the War on Drugs and policies that deny convicted felons equal access to employment, housing, education, and public benefits create a permanent under caste based largely on race. As the United States celebrates the nation's "triumph over race" with the election of Barack Obama, the majority of young black men in major American cities are locked behind bars or have been labeled felons for life. Although Jim Crow laws have been wiped off the books, an astounding percentage of the African American community remains trapped in a subordinate status - much like their grandparents before them. Alexander shows that, by targeting black men and decimating communities of color, the U.S. criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control, even as it formally adheres to the principle of color blindness. The New Jim Crow challenges the civil rights community - and all of us - to place mass incarceration at the forefront of a new movement for racial justice in America

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BTCTA

Dewey number

364.973

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portraits

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Literary form

non fiction

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