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The New Jim Crow
- 301 pages · about 5 hours
- First published 2010
- 30 editions
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1 About this book
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness is a 2010 book by Michelle Alexander, a civil rights litigator and legal scholar. The book discusses race-related issues specific to African-American males and mass incarceration in the United States, but Alexander noted that the discrimination faced by African-American males is prevalent among other minorities and socio-economically disadvantaged populations.
Alexander's central premise, from which the book derives its title, is that "mass incarceration is, metaphorically, the New Jim Crow". --wikipedia.
Good for readers who want: history and politics.
- Race relations
- United states, race relations
- History
- Social science
- Political science
- United States
- Administration of Criminal justice
- Race discrimination
2 About Michelle Alexander
Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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