The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

by Michelle Alexander

Despite the triumphant dismantling of the Jim Crow Laws, the system that once forced African Americans into a segregated second-class citizenship still haunts America, the US criminal justice system still unfairly targets black men and an entire segment of the population is deprived of their basic rights. Outside of prisons, a web of laws and regulations discriminates against these wrongly convicted ex-offenders in voting, housing, employment and education. Alexander here offers an urgent call for justice.

• ISBN10: 1595581030
• ISBN13: 9781595581037
• Publish Date: 20 May 2010 (first published 9 February 2010)
• Publish Status: Transferred
• Out of Print: 29 February 2012
• Publish Country: GB
• Imprint: The New Press
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 314
• Language: English

Reviews

[Jeff Sexton]

Fundamentally Flawed, But With Some Good Points And Multitudinous Evidence. Overall, Alexander's work has some good points - mostly when it concerns examining the United States' mass incarceration system as a whole. Its fundamental fatal flaw however its its central tenet- that this mass incarceration system is a system of *racial*, rather than class, control. But at least Alexander documents her case well, even when only citing evidence from a particular strain of thought that happens to agree with her own. Worth reading - highly recommended even - for the examination of the mass incarceration system and its effects as a whole , but severely hampered in its attempts to portray the system as "just another way to keep the black man down". In that central tenet, it does its greatest disservice to showing the full monstrosity that is the US mass incarceration system.