The New Jim Crow

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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
TUESDAYS 7-830p
Oct 13: Forward to pgs 58 (Forward to Chapter 1)
Oct 20: pgs 59 to 96 (Chapter 2)
Oct 27: pgs 97 to 139 (Chapter 3)
Nov 3: pgs 140 to 220 (Chapter 4 & 5)
Nov 10: pgs 221 to end (Chapter 6 to end)

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."