Description: 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. Praised by Harvard Law professor Lani Guinier as brave and bold, 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. 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, this updated and revised paperback edition of The New Jim Crow, now with a foreword by Cornel West, is a must-read for all people of conscience.
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Seller
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Artist: Michelle Alexander
Brand: N/A
Type: Hardback
EAN: 9781595581037
ISBN: 1595581030
Publication Name: N/A
Release Title: New Jim Crow, The: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblind...
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Book Title: New Jim Crow : Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Number of Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: New Press, T.H.E.
Publication Year: 2010
Topic: Discrimination & Race Relations, Civil Rights, General, Criminal Law / General, Penology, Criminology, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Item Height: 1.1 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Law, Social Science, Political Science
Item Weight: 20.5 Oz
Author: Michelle Alexander
Item Length: 9.4 in
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Hardcover
