the new jim crow: mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness, 10th anniversary edition  <p>seldom does a book have the impact of michelle alexander’s <i>the new jim crow</i>. 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 <i>new york times</i> best seller list.</p> <p>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 <i>birmingham news</i> proclaimed, it is “undoubtedly the most important book published in this century about the u.s.”</p> <p>now, 10 years after it was first published, the new press is proud to issue a 10th-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. </p>