- Publisher: The New Press
- ISBN: 9781595586438
- Price: $22.95 CAD
- Publication Date: Dec 2012
- Rights: Canada
- Pages: 304
unavailable until Dec 2012
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Request Exam CopyNew Jim Crow
Mass Incarcerations in the Age of Colorblindness
Michelle Alexander
The New Jim Crow was initially published with a modest first printing and reasonable expectations for a hard-hitting book on a tough topic. Now, ten-plus printings later, the long-awaited paperback version of the book Lani Guinier calls “brave and bold,” and Pulitzer Prize–winner David Levering Lewis calls “stunning,” will at last be available.
In the era of colorblindness, it is no longer socially permissible to use race, explicitly, as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and social contempt. Yet, as legal star Michelle Alexander reveals, today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against convicted criminals in nearly all the ways that it was once legal to discriminate against African Americans. Once you’re labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination—employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial of educational opportunity, denial of food stamps and other public benefits, and exclusion from jury service—are suddenly legal.
Contents
· Foreword by Cornel West
· Preface
· Introduction
1. The Rebirth of Caste
2. The Lockdown
3. The Color of Justice
4. The Cruel Hand
5. The New Jim Crow
6. The Fire This Time
· Notes
· Index
About the Author
A longtime civil rights advocate and litigator, Michelle Alexander won a 2005 Soros Justice Fellowship and now holds a joint appointment at the Moritz College of Law and the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at Ohio State University. Alexander served for several years as the director of the Racial Justice Project at the ACLU of Northern California, which spearheaded the national campaign against racial profiling. At the beginning of her career she served as a law clerk on the United States Supreme Court for Justice Harry Blackmun. She lives outside Columbus, Ohio.