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

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The work The new Jim Crow : mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Menasha Public Library (Elisha D. Smith). This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

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

Title remainder

mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness

Statement of responsibility

Michelle Alexander

Title variation

Mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness

Creator

• Alexander, Michelle

Author

• Alexander, Michelle

Subject

• African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc
• African Americans -- Segregation | History
• Criminal justice, Administration of
• Discrimination in criminal justice administration
• Law for laypersons
• Race discrimination
• Racism in criminology
• African American men -- Social conditions
• United States -- Race relations
• African American prisoners

Genre

• Law for laypersons

Language

eng

Summary

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

Cataloging source

BDP

Dewey number

364.973

Index

index present

LC call number

HV9950

LC item number

.A437 2020

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult