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By Michelle Alexander
As soon as in an outstanding whereas a publication comes alongside that adjustments the way in which we see the realm and is helping to gasoline a national social move. The New Jim Crow is any such e-book. Praised via Harvard legislation professor Lani Guinier as "brave and bold," this booklet at once demanding situations the idea that the election of Barack Obama indications a brand new period of colorblindness. With outstanding candor, criminal student Michelle Alexander argues that "we haven't ended racial caste in the United States; we've in simple terms redesigned it." via concentrating on black males throughout the warfare on medicines and decimating groups of colour, the U.S. felony justice approach services as a latest process of racial control—relegating thousands to an everlasting second-class status—even because it officially adheres to the main of colorblindness. within the phrases of Benjamin Todd Jealous, president and CEO of the NAACP, this ebook is a "call to action."
Called "stunning" by way of Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David Levering Lewis, "invaluable" through the Daily Kos , "explosive" through Kirkus, and "profoundly necessary" by means of the Miami Herald, this up-to-date and revised paperback version of The New Jim Crow, now with a foreword via Cornel West, is a must-read for every person of conscience.
About the author
Michelle Alexander is an affiliate professor of legislations at Ohio kingdom collage and holds a joint appointment on the Kirwan Institute for the learn of Race and Ethnicity. previously the director of the ACLU’s Racial Justice venture in Northern California, Alexander served as a legislations clerk for U.S. very best court docket Justice Harry A. Blackmun.
Cornel West is the category of 1943 college Professor, emeritus, at Princeton college and is at the moment Professor of Philosophy and Christian perform at Union Theological Seminary.
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