The New Jim Crow Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
Social Science2012 · 312 pages

The New Jim Crow Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

by Michelle Alexander
About this book

This book seeks to analyze the issue of race in America after the election of Barack Obama. For the author, the U.S. criminal justice system functions can act as a contemporary system of racial control, even as it adheres to the principle of color blindness.

Listed under Social Science · Criminology · Ethnic Studies · African American Studies