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The new Jim Crow mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness

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A tenth-anniversary edition of the iconic bestseller -- "one of the most influential books of the past 20 years," according to the Chronicle of Higher Education -- with a new preface by the author. "It is in no small part thanks to Alexander's account that civil rights organizations such as Black Li...

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Main Author: Alexander, Michelle (Author)
Format: Downloads eBook Books eBook
Language:English
Published: LaVergne : The New Press, 2020.
Edition:Tenth anniversary edition.
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Racism in criminology > United States.
Criminal justice, Administration of > United States.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration > United States.
African American prisoners > United States.
African American men > Social conditions.
Race discrimination > United States.
African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc.
African Americans > Segregation > History.
United States > Race relations.
Law for laypersons.
Instructional and educational works.
Electronic books.
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Summary:A tenth-anniversary edition of the iconic bestseller -- "one of the most influential books of the past 20 years," according to the Chronicle of Higher Education -- with a new preface by the author. "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." -- Adam Shatz, London Review of Books. Seldom does a book have the impact of Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow. Since it was first published in 2010, it has been cited in judicial decisions and has been adopted in campus-wide and community-wide reads; it helped inspire the creation of the Marshall Project and the new $100 million Art for Justice Fund; it has been the winner of numerous prizes, including the prestigious NAACP Image Award; and it has spent nearly 250 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Most important of all, it has spawned a whole generation of criminal justice reform activists and organizations motivated by Michelle Alexander's unforgettable argument that "we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it." As the Birmingham News proclaimed, it is "undoubtedly the most important book published in this century about the U.S." Now, ten years after it was first published, The New Press is proud to issue a tenth-anniversary edition with a new preface by Michelle Alexander that discusses the impact the book has had and the state of the criminal justice reform movement today.
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ISBN:9781620971949
Author Notes:Michelle Alexander is an associate professor of law at Ohio State University and holds a joint appointment at the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity. Formerly the director of the ACLU's Racial Justice Project in Northern California, Alexander served as a law clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun. Cornel West is the Class of 1943 University Professor, emeritus, at Princeton University and is currently Professor of Philosophy and Christian Practice at Union Theological Seminary.

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