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

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“The New Jim Crow”, Praised by Harvard Law professor Lani Guinier as “brave and bold,” this book directly challenges the notion that the presidency 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.”
Called “stunning” by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Levering Lewis, “invaluable” by the “Daily Kos,” “explosive” by “Kirkus,” and “profoundly necessary” by the “Miami Herald,” “The New Jim Crow” is a must-read for all people of conscience.
The New Jim Crow