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The New Jim Crow
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Emmy
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“A book that anyone who wishes to be grounded in the reality of America’s history, and in the current moment where racial caste continues to thrive under the guise of supposed racial neutrality, must read. The author walks the reader through each step in both the creation and the maintenance of the system of mass incarceration, as well as why the majority of Americans deny what should be obvious about the implications of such a system. Overall such an important book.”
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Kiarra S.
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“What you will get: In The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander delineates how the “war on drugs” was merely propaganda used to incarcerate a mass number of Black and Brown people, and consequently, subject them to second class citizenship in the U.S. If you want to learn more about the ways that incarceration, convictions, pleading guilty to petty crimes, etc. can completely alter the trajectory of a person’s life/their family’s, please give this a read! This book is a good starting point to understand why so many of us believe in abolition and the end of the prison-industrial complex.
Actual review: This book is dense- it covers a lot of information and history dating back to the Jim Crow era (taking in that amount of educational text can be daunting). I personally started and stopped this book twice before finishing it on this attempt, but I’m so glad I read it! The text itself is not hard to digest, and the author includes a lot of anecdotes to get the message across. If you read it, I would recommend going along with the audiobook. I appreciate that the audio version changes words from the text such as “ex-offender” to a person who was convicted of a crime.”
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“A crucial and eye-opening examination of mass incarceration and systemic racism. It’s dense in the best way, well-researched, challenging, and essential for understanding the modern justice system.”
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“A must read for all who care about human rights. Very informative.”About Michelle Alexander
is an associate professor of law at Ohio State University and holds a joint appointment at the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity. Formerly the director of the ACLU's Racial Justice Project in Northern California, Alexander served as a law clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun.
is the Class of 1943 University Professor, emeritus, at Princeton University and is currently Professor of Philosophy and Christian Practice at Union Theological Seminary.
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