The New Jim Crow The New Jim Crow Michelle Alexander

The New Jim Crow

How Mass Incarceration Recreated Racial Caste in America

by Michelle Alexander

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About This Book

Published in 2010, this work exposes a discriminatory system that has imprisoned African-Americans on an unprecedented scale. Through the War on Drugs and a supposedly race-neutral justice system, the United States has sustained racial inequality through implicit biases in law enforcement, prosecution, and punishment.

Who Should Read This?

  • People committed to understanding racial justice in America
  • Readers interested in how social systems perpetuate inequality
  • Those seeking to comprehend institutional racism in criminal justice
  • Citizens wanting to examine the real costs of the War on Drugs

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