The New Jim Crow (Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness - 10th Anniversary Edition)

Named one of the most important nonfiction books of the 21st century by Entertainment Weekly' Slate' Chronicle of Higher Education' Literary Hub, Book Riot' 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.

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352 pages

Average rating: 7.6

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Anonymous
Jan 31, 2021
7/10 stars
I've rated this book at 7, maybe a bit generous, but I did find value in Alexander's perspective, especially as it relates to citing the court cases. Her approach to the writing was part proselytizing and part legal closing argument, and I think that combination though interesting at first, waned in its effectiveness and subsequently negatively impacted her closing arguments. That being said we have read a range of books that have all taken different approaches which all serve value. My favorite was the color of law and the visual data-centric approach.

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