The new Jim Crow : mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness

Summary: Seldom does a book have the impact of Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow. Since it was first published in 2010, it has been cited in judicial decisions and has been adopted in campus-wide and community-wide reads; it helped inspire the creation of the Marshall Project and the new $100 million Art for Justice Fund; it has been the winner of numerous prizes, including the prestigious NAACP Image Award; and it has spent nearly 250 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Most important of all, it has spawned a whole generation of criminal justice reform activists and organizations motivated by Michelle Alexander's unforgettable argument that "we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it. Now, ten years after it was first published, The New Press is proud to issue a tenth-anniversary edition with a new preface by Michelle Alexander that discusses the impact the book has had and the state of the criminal justice reform movement today

Record details

ISBN: 1620971933 (paperback)
ISBN: 9781620971932 (paperback)
ISBN: 1620975459
ISBN: 9781620975459
Physical Description: xlix, 377 pages ; 23 cm
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Edition: 10th anniversary edition.
Publisher: New York : The New Press, [2020]
Copyright: ©2010

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index
Formatted Contents Note:	Preface to the tenth anniversary edition -- Foreward by Cornel West -- Preface -- Introduction -- The rebirth of caste -- The lockdown -- The color of justice -- The cruel hand -- The new Jim Crow -- The fire this time.