The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Michelle Alexander
Publisher: New Press, The

Michelle Alexander, Moritz College of Law and the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at The Ohio State University, is the author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (2010). Alexander's talk focuses on the topics addressed in her influential book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. Posted by to TwitterShare to Facebook. The purpose of Jim Crow, of course, was to keep slavery in place. This book chronicles the rebirth of a caste-like system in the United States, one that has resulted in millions of African . The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindnes. Book Review: 'The New Jim Crow' — Review of Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. Michelle Alexander is a highly acclaimed civil rights lawyer, advocate, and legal scholar. Michelle Alexander is the author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (The New Press, 2010). A few of my very smart friends enthusiastically recommended The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander to me, so I expected that it would be an interesting book. January 20, 2010 • by kdansky • no comments ». €The New Jim Crow – Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness,” by Michelle Alexander, foreword by Cornel West, 2010. See “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness,” by Michelle Alexander. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. Free and open to the public, her talk will be at 7:30 p.m. There is, of course, a colorblind explanation for all this: crime rates.