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

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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 ZoraA 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 BooksSeldom 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 Newsproclaimed, 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. Read more

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Product Details:

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ The New Press; 10th Anniversary ed. edition (January 7, 2020)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1620971933
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 32
• Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ NC1390L
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.1 ounces
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.4 x 1.3 x 8.4 inches
• Best Sellers Rank: #8,734 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #4 in Civil Rights & Liberties (Books) #6 in Criminal Law (Books) #15 in Criminology (Books)
• #4 in Civil Rights & Liberties (Books)