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The New Jim Crow

Author: Michelle Alexander.

The New Jim Crow

Author: Michelle Alexander.

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Item #: D21832
Format: Paperback
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 2012
Publisher: New Press
ISBN: 9781802060690
Challenging the notion that the election of Barack Obama signaled a new era of colorblindness in the United States, lawyer Michelle Alexander reveals how racial discrimination was not ended but merely redesigned. Millions of African Americans have been imprisoned and then relegated to a permanent second-class status, denied the rights supposedly won in the Civil Rights movement. By targeting black ... More
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Challenging the notion that the election of Barack Obama signaled a new era of colorblindness in the United States, lawyer Michelle Alexander reveals how racial discrimination was not ended but merely redesigned. Millions of African Americans have been imprisoned and then relegated to a permanent second-class status, denied the rights supposedly won in the Civil Rights movement. By targeting black men through the War on Drugs and decimating communities of color, Alexander argues here, the American criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control.

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