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Title details for A Macat Analysis of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander - Available

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

by Michelle Alexander
Ryan Moore
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The United States has the world's largest prison population, with more than two million behind bars. Alexander says this is mainly due to America's 'war on drugs,' launched in 1982. In The New Jim Crow, she explains how this government initiative has led to America's black citizens being imprisoned on a colossal scale. She compares this mass detention—with black men up to 50 times more likely to be jailed than white men—to the Jim Crow era segregation that once pervaded the American South. Though the Civil Rights Movement supposedly ended segregation in the early 1960s, the war on drugs opened the door to a new racial caste system.

  • Creators

  • Series

    The Macat Library

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    August 31, 2017

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781912128877
      • File size: 53290 KB
      • Duration: 01:51:01

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from November 2, 2009
      Contrary to the rosy picture of race embodied in Barack Obama's political success and Oprah Winfrey's financial success, legal scholar Alexander argues vigorously and persuasively that “e have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.” Jim Crow and legal racial segregation has been replaced by mass incarceration as “a system of social control” (“More African Americans are under correctional control today... than were enslaved in 1850”). Alexander reviews American racial history from the colonies to the Clinton administration, delineating its transformation into the “war on drugs.” She offers an acute analysis of the effect of this mass incarceration upon former inmates “who will be discriminated against, legally, for the rest of their lives, denied employment, housing, education, and public benefits.” Most provocatively, she reveals how both the move toward colorblindness and affirmative action may blur our vision of injustice: “most Americans know and don't know the truth about mass incarceration”—but her carefully researched, deeply engaging, and thoroughly readable book should change that.

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