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A review by pdougmc
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
4.0
This is a well written book on a very important subject.I think it will spur many people to action to try to alleviate some of the conditions portrayed in this book. Despite the numerous citations, the narrative flowed quite well. I attribute that to the writers skill in exhibiting difficult topics. Perhaps this skill results from her profession as an attorney.
I gave this book a four instead of a five because I must confess that I only read a little over one half of the publication. The first half of the book presented a lot of material of which I only had a passing familiarity with and was therefore interesting. In the analysis section of the second half, I felt that a lot of the material in the first part was being repeated. I resorted to rapid skimming of the remaining material. Perhaps the author had important things to say in the second half and I regretted that I may have missed it, but I could not bring myself to continue to see material that I had read earlier.
I gave this book a four instead of a five because I must confess that I only read a little over one half of the publication. The first half of the book presented a lot of material of which I only had a passing familiarity with and was therefore interesting. In the analysis section of the second half, I felt that a lot of the material in the first part was being repeated. I resorted to rapid skimming of the remaining material. Perhaps the author had important things to say in the second half and I regretted that I may have missed it, but I could not bring myself to continue to see material that I had read earlier.