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New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness - Hardcover

Alexander, Michelle

 
9781595581037: New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1595581030 ISBN 13: 9781595581037
Verlag: The New Press, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

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. Praised by Harvard Law professor Lani Guinier as "brave and bold," this book directly challenges the notion that the presidency 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."

Called "stunning" by Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David Levering Lewis, "invaluable" by the Daily Kos, "explosive" by Kirkus, and "profoundly necessary" by the Miami Herald, The New Jim Crow is a must–read for all people of conscience.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Michelle Alexander is an associate professor of law at Ohio State University and holds a joint appointment at the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity. Formerly the director of the ACLU’s Racial Justice Project in Northern California, Alexander served as a law clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun. Cornel West is the Class of 1943 University Professor, emeritus, at Princeton University and is currently Professor of Philosophy and Christian Practice at Union Theological Seminary.

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Verlag
The New Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1595581030
ISBN 13 
9781595581037
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
304
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