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| Resource: | Books (730.1700) The New Jim Crow : Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness |
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| Author: | Alexander, Michelle | |
| Publisher: | NEW PRESS, 2012 | |
| Length: | 312 pages | |
| Heading: | 235 — Social Justice | |
| Subjects: | Administration of criminal justice / United States. / sears; African American men / Social conditions; African American men / Social conditions. / fast / (OCoLC)fs; African American prisoners / United States; African American prisoners. / fast / (OCoLC)fst00799317; African Americans / United States. / sears; Crime-Prisons and Prisoners; Criminal justice, Administration of / United States; Criminal justice, Administration of. / fast / (OCoLC)fst0088; Discrimination in criminal justice administration / United S; Discrimination in criminal justice administration. / fast / ; Prisoners / United States. / sears; Race discrimination / United States; Race discrimination / United States. / sears; Race discrimination. / fast / (OCoLC)fst01086465; Race relations. / fast / (OCoLC)fst01086509; United States / Race relations; United States / Race relations. / sears; United States. / fast / (OCoLC)fst01204155 | |
| # Copies: | 1 | |
| ISBN/ISSN: | 9781595586438 | |
| Description: | 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 Prizewinner 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. Featured on The Tavis Smiley Show, Bill Moyers Journal, Democracy Now, and C-Spans Washington Journal, The New Jim Crow has become an overnight phenomenon, sparking a much-needed conversation—including a recent mention by Cornel West on Real Time with Bill Maher — about ways in which our system of mass incarceration has come to resemble systems of racial control from a different era. |
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| Age Groups: | None specified. |
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