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

4.0

This book is very educational. And i really appreciate that the book focuses on everything before and after incarceration as being the root of the problems. It does spend a little bit on correctional facilities, which are often considered to be the root of the problem behind mass incarceration of black and Brown people.

I do wish the book spent a little more time on success stories in programs, cases, etc that have positively stood against Jim Crow. That would have given more hope in the possibility of change. Instead, the book really focuses on all that went wrong and continues to go wrong. All true but it leaves very hope of real, life-altering changes. And maybe that’s the point - American will likely never be able to treat each other as equals…