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The new Jim Crow : mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness / Michelle Alexander.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alexander, Michelle.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration--United States.
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration.
- African American prisoners.
- United States.
- Criminal justice, Administration of--United States.
- Criminal justice, Administration of.
- African American prisoners--United States.
- African American men--Social conditions.
- African American men.
- Race discrimination--United States.
- Race discrimination.
- United States--Race relations.
- Race relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 290 pages)
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New Press ; [Jackson, Tenn.] : Distributed by Perseus Distribution, 2010.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- It is no longer socially permissible to use race, explicitly, as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and social contempt. Yet, as legal star Alexander reveals, today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against convicted criminals in nearly all the ways that it was once legal to discriminate against African Americans. 304 pp. 50,000 print.
- Contents:
- The rebirth of caste
- The lockdown
- The color of justice
- The cruel hand
- The new Jim Crow
- The fire this time.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-279) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. Available via World Wide Web.
- Print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lipman Criminology Library Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Alexander, Michelle. New Jim Crow.
- ISBN:
- 9781595585301
- 1595585303
- 9781595588197
- 1595588191
- Publisher Number:
- 99964203352
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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