A review by scylla87
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

challenging dark informative tense slow-paced

3.0

I really struggled with how to rate this book. From beginning to end it was a huge struggle for me. The author made some structural choices that often made it more difficult for me to keep up with what she was trying to impart. The basic tenements of what she was saying got through, but I feel like I need to go back and reread this before I can really form an opinion on what was contained within. That said, reading this book helped to change my perspective on a few things, especially the behavior of poor white people in relation to social programs. I intend to go back and read this one again when I have the time to really wrestle through it, as well as doing other reading on the topic of mass incarceration as well as other forms of institutionalized racism.
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