TY  - BOOK
AU  - Alexander,Michelle
TI  - The new Jim Crow: mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness 
SN  - 1595586431 (pbk.)
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York, NY, [Jackson, TN]
PB  - New Press, Distributed by Perseus Distribution
KW  - African American men
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - African American prisoners
KW  - United States
KW  - Criminal justice, Administration of
KW  - Discrimination in criminal justice administration
KW  - Race discrimination
KW  - Race relations
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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