The new Jim Crow
Subtitle: mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness
By: Michelle Alexander ; [with a new foreword by Cornel West]
Edition: Rev. ed.
Publisher: New Press; Distributed by Perseus Distribution
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York; [Jackson, Tenn.]
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9781595586438
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Administration of Criminal justice; Race relations; Race discrimination; Discrimination in criminal justice administration; Social conditions; African American men; African American prisoners
Other titles: Mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness
Description: This work argues that the War on Drugs and policies that deny convicted felons equal access to employment, housing, education, and public benefits create a permanent under caste based largely on race.As the United States celebrates the nation's "triumph over race" with the election of Barack Obama, the majority of young black men in major American cities are locked behind bars or have been labeled felons for life.  Although Jim Crow laws have been wiped off the books, an astounding percentage of the African American community remains trapped in a subordinate status - much like their grandparents before them.  In this incisive critique, former litigator-turned-legal-scholar Michelle Alexander provocatively argues that we have not ended racial caste in America:  we have simply redesigned it.  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.
Notes: Previous ed.: 2010.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-296) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword
pagenum: ix
authors: Cornel West; title: Preface
pagenum: xiii; title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction
pagenum: 1; label: Chapter 1
title: The Rebirth of Caste
pagenum: 20; label: Chapter 2
title: The Lockdown
pagenum: 59; label: Chapter 3
title: The Color of Justice
pagenum: 97; label: Chapter 4
title: The Cruel Hand
pagenum: 140; label: Chapter 5
title: The New Jim Crow
pagenum: 178; label: Chapter 6
title: The Fire This Time
pagenum: 221; title: Notes
pagenum: 263; title: Index
pagenum: 297