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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

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SKU: 1620971933

Author: Alexander, Michelle

Brand: The New Press

Edition: 10th Anniversary ed.

Binding: Paperback

Number Of Pages: 352

Release Date: 07-01-2020

Details: Product Description Named one of the most important nonfiction books of the 21st century by Entertainment Weekly&sbquo; Slate&sbquo; Chronicle of Higher Education&sbquo; Literary Hub, Book Riot&sbquo; and Zora A tenth-anniversary edition of the iconic bestseller—“one of the most influential books of the past 20 years,” according to the Chronicle of Higher Education—with a new preface by the author “It is in no small part thanks to Alexander’s account that civil rights organizations such as Black Lives Matter have focused so much of their energy on the criminal justice system.”  —Adam Shatz, London Review of Books 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.   Review “Devastating. . . . Alexander does a fine job of truth-telling, pointing a finger where it rightly should be pointed: at all of us, liberal and conservative, white and black.”—Forbes “Alexander is absolutely right to fight for what she describes as a ‘much-needed conversation’ about the wide-ranging social costs and divisive racial impact of our criminal-justice policies.”—Ellis Cose, Newsweek “Invaluable . . . a timely and stunning guide to the labyrinth of propaganda, discrimination, and racist policies masquerading under other names that comprises what we call justice in America.”—Daily Kos “Many critics have cast doubt on the proclamations of racism’s erasure in the Obama era, but few have presented a case as powerful as Alexander’s.”—In These Times “Carefully researched, deeply engaging, and thoroughly readable.”—Publishers Weekly “[Written] with rare clarity, depth, and candor.”—Counterpunch “A call to action for everyone concerned with racial justice and an important tool for anyone concerned with understanding and dismantling this oppressive system.”—Sojourne

Package Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 1.3 inches

Languages: English

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

$18.99 $13.23

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