
The New Jim Crow
Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.
Format: Ebook
Description: 1 online resource
Once in a great while a book comes along that changes the way we see the world and helps to fuel a nationwide social movement. The New Jim Crow is such a book. This book directly challenges the notion that the election of Barack Obama signals a new era of colorblindness. With dazzling candor, legal scholar Michelle Alexander argues that 'we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.' By targeting black men through the War on Drugs and decimating communities of color, the U.S. criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control-relegating millions to a permanent second-class status-even as it formally adheres to the principle of colorblindness. In the words of Benjamin Todd Jealous, president and CEO of the NAACP, this book is a 'call to action.'
Subjects:
Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States.
African American prisoners.
African American men -- Social conditions.
Race discrimination -- United States.
Electronic books.
United States -- Race relations.
Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States.
African American prisoners.
African American men -- Social conditions.
Race discrimination -- United States.
Electronic books.
United States -- Race relations.
ISBN:
9781620971949 (electronic bk.)
Electronic resource.
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