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The New Jim Crow : mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness

Alexander, Michelle (author.).

Summary: A tenth-anniversary edition of the iconic bestseller'"one of the most influential books of the 20 years," according to the Chronicle of Higher Education'with a new preface by the author 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.

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  • ISBN: 1620971941
  • ISBN: 9781620971949
  • Physical Description: remote
    1 online resource (xlix, 377 pages)
  • Edition: Tenth anniversary edition.
  • Publisher: New York : The New Press, [2020]

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Intro; Preface to the Tenth Anniversary Edition; Foreword -- CORNEL WEST; Preface; Introduction; 1. The Rebirth of Caste; 2. The Lockdown; 3. The Color of Justice; 4. The Cruel Hand; 5. The New Jim Crow; 6. The Fire This Time; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index.
Source of Description Note:
Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebook Central, viewed March 20, 2020).
Subject: Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States
Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States
African American prisoners -- United States
African American men -- Social conditions
Race discrimination -- United States
United States -- Race relations
LAW -- Criminal Law -- General
African American men -- Social conditions
African American prisoners
Criminal justice, Administration of
Discrimination in criminal justice administration
Race discrimination
Race relations
United States
Genre: Electronic books.

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Summary: A tenth-anniversary edition of the iconic bestseller'"one of the most influential books of the 20 years," according to the Chronicle of Higher Education'with a new preface by the author 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.

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