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The new Jim Crow : mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness / Michelle Alexander.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection HV9950 .A437 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alexander, Michelle, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States.
- United States--Race relations.
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration--United States.
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration.
- Racism in criminal justice administration--United States.
- Racism in criminal justice administration.
- Criminal justice, Administration of--United States.
- Criminal justice, Administration of.
- Mass incarceration--United States.
- Mass incarceration.
- African American prisoners--United States.
- African American prisoners.
- African American men--Social conditions.
- African American men.
- African American men--Legal status, laws, etc.
- African American men--Civil rights.
- African American men--Effect of imprisonment on.
- Racism in criminology--United States.
- Racism in criminology.
- Race discrimination--United States.
- Race discrimination.
- African Americans.
- Criminal law.
- Men.
- Criminology.
- Social history.
- African Americans--Segregation--History.
- Human beings.
- Black or African American.
- Criminal Law.
- Prisoners.
- Racism.
- Social Segregation.
- Social Conditions.
- Humans.
- african american.
- criminal law.
- men (male humans).
- criminology.
- social history.
- Homo sapiens (species).
- African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc.
- African Americans--Segregation.
- Discrimination in administration of criminal justice--United States.
- Race relations.
- Medical Subjects:
- Black or African American.
- Criminal Law.
- Men.
- Prisoners.
- Racism.
- Social Segregation.
- Criminology.
- Social Conditions.
- Humans.
- Genre:
- Law for laypersons.
- Law for laypersons
- Instructional and educational works
- History
- Instructional and educational works.
- Physical Description:
- xlix, 377 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Tenth anniversary edition.
- Other Title:
- Mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness
- Mass incarceration in the age of color blindness
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New Press, 2020.
- 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." As the Birmingham News proclaimed, it is "undoubtedly the most important book published in this century about the U.S."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.
- Alexander offers an indictment of the criminal justice system, arguing that the War on Drugs and policies that deny convicted felons equal access to employment, housing, education, and public benefits create a permanent under caste based largely on race. Includes a new preface for the tenth-anniversary edition discussing the impact the book has had and the state of the criminal justice reform movement today.
- Contents:
- The rebirth of caste
- The lockdown
- The color of justice
- The cruel hand
- The new Jim Crow
- The fire this time.
- Notes:
- Originally published: 2010.
- "Preface to the Tenth Anniversary Edition ©2020 by Michelle Alexander."--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [331]-364) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Beardwood Fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9781620975459
- 1620975459
- 9781620971932
- 1620971933
- OCLC:
- 1132431777
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