The new Jim Crow : mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness
- Responsibility
- Michelle Alexander.
- Edition
- Revised edition.
- Publication
- New York : New Press : Distributed by Perseus Distribution, 2012.
- Physical description
- xvii, 312 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Creators/Contributors
- Author/Creator
- Alexander, Michelle, author.
Contents/Summary
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
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- The rebirth of caste
- The lockdown
- The color of justice
- The cruel hand
- The new Jim Crow
- The fire this time.
- Publisher's summary
-
In a bold and innovative argument, a rising legal star shows readers how the mass incarceration of a disproportionate number of black men amounts to a devastating system of racial control. This is a terrifying reality that exists in the UK as much as in the US. Despite the triumphant dismantling of the Jim Crow laws, the system that once forced African-Americans into a segregated second-class citizenship still haunts and the criminal justice system still unfairly targets black men and deprives an entire segment of the population of their basic rights.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)
Subjects
- Subjects
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration > United States.
- Criminal justice, Administration of > United States.
- African American prisoners.
- Race discrimination > United States.
- United States > Race relations
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration.
- Criminal justice, Administration of.
- Race discrimination.
- Race relations.
- United States.
- LAW / Criminal Law / Sentencing.
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights.
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology.
- African American prisoners > United States.
- African American men > Social conditions.
- Administration of criminal justice > United States.
- African Americans > United States.
- Prisoners > United States.
- United States > Race relations.
Bibliographic information
- Publication date
- 2012
- Note
- "With a new foreward by Cornel West"--Cover.
- Awards
- Commended for Independent Publisher Book Awards (Social Issues) 2010 9781595581037 20180129 (source: Nielsen Book Data)
- Winner of Street Literature Book Award Medal (Slbam) (Adult Nonfiction) 2013 9781595581037 20180129 (source: Nielsen Book Data)
- ISBN
- 9781595586438 (pbk.)
- 1595586431 (pbk.)
- 9781595588197 (ebook)
- 9781595581037
- 1595581030
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