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The new Jim Crow : mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness / Michelle Alexander ; [with a new foreword by Cornel West].

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, NY : New Press ; [Jackson, TN] : Distributed by Perseus Distribution, c2012.Edition: Rev. edDescription: xvii, 312 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 1595586431 (pbk.)
  • 9781595586438 (pbk.)
Other title:
  • Mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness
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Contents:
Foreword / Cornel West -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Rebirth of caste -- Lockdown -- Color of justice -- Cruel hand -- New Jim Crow -- Fire this time -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: Overview: "As the United States celebrates the nation's "triumph over race" with the election of Barack Obama, the majority of young black men in major American cities are locked behind bars or have been labeled felons for life. Although Jim Crow laws have been wiped off the books, an astounding percentage of the African American community remains trapped in a subordinate status - much like their grandparents before them. " In this incisive critique, former litigator-turned-legal-scholar Michelle Alexander provocatively argues that we have not ended racial caste in America: we have simply redesigned it. Alexander shows that, by targeting black men and decimating communities of color, the U.S. criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control, even as it formally adheres to the principle of color blindness. The New Jim Crow challenges the civil rights community - and all of us - to place mass incarceration at the forefront of a new movement for racial justice in America.
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In a bold and innovative argument, a rising legal star shows readers how the mass incarceration of a disproportionate number of black men amounts to a devastating system of racial control. This is a terrifying reality that exists in the UK as much as in the US. Despite the triumphant dismantling of the Jim Crow laws, the system that once forced African-Americans into a segregated second-class citizenship still haunts and the criminal justice system still unfairly targets black men and deprives an entire segment of the population of their basic rights.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-296) and index.

Foreword / Cornel West -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Rebirth of caste -- Lockdown -- Color of justice -- Cruel hand -- New Jim Crow -- Fire this time -- Notes -- Index.

Overview: "As the United States celebrates the nation's "triumph over race" with the election of Barack Obama, the majority of young black men in major American cities are locked behind bars or have been labeled felons for life. Although Jim Crow laws have been wiped off the books, an astounding percentage of the African American community remains trapped in a subordinate status - much like their grandparents before them. " In this incisive critique, former litigator-turned-legal-scholar Michelle Alexander provocatively argues that we have not ended racial caste in America: we have simply redesigned it. Alexander shows that, by targeting black men and decimating communities of color, the U.S. criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control, even as it formally adheres to the principle of color blindness. The New Jim Crow challenges the civil rights community - and all of us - to place mass incarceration at the forefront of a new movement for racial justice in America.

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