The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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Jarvious Cotton’s great-great-grandfather could not vote as a slave.
–FROM THE NEW JIM CROW
Alexander shows that, by targeting black men and decimating communities of color, the U.S. criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control, even as it formally adheres to the principle of color blindness. The New Jim Crow challenges the civil rights community–and all of us–to place mass incarceration at the forefront of a new movement for racial justice in America. more…






