A review by giak13
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

5.0

While this book was very saddening, I think it's extremely necessary for everyone to read. It's such an important topic that everyone should be concerned with. This book does a great job bringing this issue to light and explaining it in a way that everyone can understand and empathize with. I enjoyed that the book was separated into six sections, long chapters are usually difficult to engage with and get through, but this wasn't the case for this book. Michelle Alexander did such an amazing job explaining the past, present and future involved with racism, slavery, and mass incarceration. I don't usually enjoy reading nonfiction, historical books, but this one really spoke to me and I was able to learn so much throughout the entire book. Sometimes the topics that are difficult to listen to are the most important to learn about. I also appreciated that this book didn't ever come across as an attack on other races, even though it had every right to do so. It genuinely seems that Michelle is only in the interest of educating the audience, not pointing blame.