The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (10th Anniversary Edition) by Michelle Alexander

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (10th Anniversary Edition)

Michelle Alexander

377 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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The New Jim Crow is a stunning account of the rebirth of a caste-like system in the United States, one that has resulted in millions of African Americans locked behind bars and then relegated to a permanent second-class status—denied the very righ...

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