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The New Jim Crow
by Michelle Alexander
Mass incarceration is Jim Crow by another name. Here's the evidence.
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you want to understand the American criminal justice system as a system rather than a collection of individual cases
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Alexander argues that mass incarceration in the United States is not a response to crime but a system of racialized social control — the successor to Jim Crow segregation and before that to slavery. The War on Drugs was a political project, not a law enforcement one. The statistics are staggering but Alexander's power is in showing the mechanism: how the system was built, how it operates, how it strips rights from millions of Black men and then calls the result their own choices. The most important American political book of the 21st century. Every teenager who will vote should read this before they do.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- North America
- Voice
- Written by a North America author
- Themes
- American MythmakingAfter EmpireWitness
