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

By Michelle Alexander

Book Overview

One of the New York Times's Best Books of the 21st Century

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 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1620975459
• ISBN13: 9781620975459
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: New Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.4" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Great read

Very informative. This book details how slavery never went away, we just have another system put in place in exchange. How purposeful the poverty to prison pipeline is and how POC are more likely to fall into that system because of the unjust environment created due to racist policies. This is all by design.

A must read

During the War On Drugs in the 90's, I didn't watch the news to know that was happening. I learned a lot from this book. I highly recommend reading this book about mass incarceration.

Important book for everyone, but especially for people in criminal justice roles.

Excellent writing and simple straight forward explanations of important and far reaching issues.