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// The New Jim //// Crow: Mass //// Incarceration in the Age of Color Blindness // By: Michelle Alexander

=About the Book=

//The New Jim Crow// is a stunning account of the rebirth of a caste-like system in the United States, one that has resulted in millions of African Americans locked behind bars and then relegated to a permanent second-class status—denied the very rights supposedly won in the Civil Rights Movement. //The New Jim Crow// tells a truth our nation has been reluctant to face.

As the United States celebrates its “over race” with the election of Barack Obama, the majority of black men in major urban areas are under correctional control or saddled with criminal records for life. Jim Crow laws were wiped off the books decades ago, but today an extraordinary percentage of the African community is warehoused in prisons or trapped in a parallel social universe, denied basic civil and human rights—including the right to vote; the right to serve on juries; and the right to be free of legal discrimination in employment, housing, access to education and public benefits. Alexander shows that, by targeting black men through the War on Drugs and decimating communities of color, the U.S. criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control, even as it formally adheres to the principle of colorblindness.

//The New Jim Crow// challenges the civil rights community—and all of us—to place mass incarceration at the forefront of a new movement for racial justice in America.

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=About the Author=

Michelle Alexander is a highly acclaimed civil rights lawyer, advocate, and legal scholar. In recent years, she has taught at a number of universities, including Stanford Law School, where she was an associate professor of law and directed the Civil Rights Clinics. In 2005, she won a Soros Justice Fellowship, which supported the writing of //The New Jim Crow//, and that same year she accepted a joint appointment at the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity and the Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University.

Prior to entering academia, Alexander served as the director of the Racial Justice Project for the ACLU of Northern California, where she coordinated the Project’s media advocacy, grassroots organizing, coalition building, and litigation. The Project’s priority areas were educational equity and criminal justice reform, and it was during those years at the ACLU that she began to awaken to the reality that our nation’s criminal justice system functions more like a caste system than a system of crime prevention or control.

In addition to her nonprofit advocacy experience, Alexander has worked as a litigator at private law firms including Saperstein, Goldstein, Demchak & Baller, in Oakland, California, where she specialized in plaintiff-side class-action lawsuits alleging race and gender discrimination.

Alexander is a graduate of Stanford Law School and Vanderbilt University. Following law school, she clerked for Justice Harry A. Blackmun on the U.S. Supreme Court and for Chief Judge Abner Mikva on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. She currently devotes much of her time to freelance writing; public speaking; consulting with advocacy organizations committed to ending mass incarceration; and, most important, raising her three young children—the most challenging and rewarding job of all.

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Walker, Samuel. //The Color of Justice: race, ethnicity, and crime in America//. Belmont, CA :Thomson/Wadsworth, 2007.
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Gabbidon, Shaun L. //Race and Crime//. Los Angeles: Sage, 2009.
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Muhammad, Khalil Gibran. //The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America//. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011.
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Papachristou, Alexander. //Blind Goddess: a Reader on Race and Justice.// New York: New Press, 2011.
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Stuntz, William J. //The Collapse of American Criminal Justice.// Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011.
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Dittmer, John and McGuire, Danielle. //Freedom Rights: New Perspectives on the Civil Rights Movement//. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2011.
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