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

by Michelle Alexander

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1595586431
• ISBN13: 9781595586438
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: New Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.2"