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 … 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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A must-read for everyone living in Trump’s America
A must read. Period.
5 stars – I loved it!
“The United States now has the highest rate of incarceration in the world, dwarfing the rates of nearly every developed country, even surpassing those in highly repressive regimes like Russia, China, and Iran.”
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness is an informative and well researched book about …
Not easy to read for someone pretty ignorant about the prison system and the so-called war on drugs. The impact on African Americans has been horrific.
From Amazon description: “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 …
Alexander is most engaging and very informative, peeling down a layer of one of the thickest layers of our American skin–that of injustice for the minority. Mass incarceration is a subject–not sexy, but seriously something to sink your teeth into. How is it possible to call America the GREATEST NATION on the planet and not at the same time …
A must-read to understand what’s happening in the world around us!
This is a must read because it reveals so many parts of the picture we Americans experience as our reality. From racism to incarceration, the suppression continues.
This book brings to the forefront the tragedy happening in the African American Community in this America. A new way to break this community
Loved it. I love seeing Melissa Alexander’s on TV and had to get this book. A very informative look at all of the ways this country has continuned to perpetuate blacks as the other, less than, and needs to be controllled. The system of racism in this country is real. Things don’t happen by chance but its honed and guided at every level of society.
Fundamentally Flawed, But With Some Good Points And Multitudinous Evidence. Overall, Alexander’s work has some good points – mostly when it concerns examining the United States’ mass incarceration system as a whole. Its fundamental fatal flaw however its its central tenet- that this mass incarceration system is a system of *racial*, rather than …
Inspirational in that I want to see what I can do as an agent of change to reverse the pattern of discrimination in our country that leads to wrongly accused and/or imprisoned black and brown men of U.S. citizenship who are ultimately disenfranchised by an extremely unfair system of justice. (Mass Incarceration!)
Michelle Alexander has written a research study that reads like a shocking narrative. This book details what our government has been up to for years and is not culminating in the creation of a new caste system. Mass Incarceration revealed. Horrifying