Synopsis:
The New Jim Crow was initially published with a modest first printing and reasonable expectations for a hard-hitting book on a tough topic. Now, ten-plus printings later, the long-awaited paperback version of the book Lani Guinier calls “brave and bold, and Pulitzer Prize-winner David Levering Lewis calls “stunning, will at last be available.
In the era of colorblindness, it is no longer socially permissible to use race, explicitly, as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and social contempt. Yet, as legal star Michelle Alexander reveals, today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against convicted criminals in nearly all the ways that it was once legal to discriminate against African Americans. Once you're labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial of educational opportunity, denial of food stamps and other public benefits, and exclusion from jury service are suddenly legal.
Featured on The Tavis Smiley Show, Bill Moyers Journal, Democracy Now, and C-Span Washington Journal, The New Jim Crow has become an overnight phenomenon, sparking a much-needed conversation including a recent mention by Cornel West on Real Time with Bill Maher&mdas;about ways in which our system of mass incarceration has come to resemble systems of racial control from a different era.
In the era of colorblindness, it is no longer socially permissible to use race, explicitly, as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and social contempt. Yet, as legal star Michelle Alexander reveals, today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against convicted criminals in nearly all the ways that it was once legal to discriminate against African Americans. Once you're labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial of educational opportunity, denial of food stamps and other public benefits, and exclusion from jury service are suddenly legal.
Featured on The Tavis Smiley Show, Bill Moyers Journal, Democracy Now, and C-Span Washington Journal, The New Jim Crow has become an overnight phenomenon, sparking a much-needed conversation including a recent mention by Cornel West on Real Time with Bill Maher&mdas;about ways in which our system of mass incarceration has come to resemble systems of racial control from a different era.
Start Date: February 21, 2017
Finish Date: April 3, 2017
Rating:★★★★★
Review:
This was truly amazing and downright informative! I learned things I didn't know, things were bought to my attention that I did know, and this just made me want to inform others of what I now know. It's upsetting to me that a book this good and honest does not have as big a media following as other books. This is not a book that is police bashing or bias it simply states the facts of what is going on in American society thoroughly. I believe this should be considered required reading for high school students. I absolutely recommend this book to literally EVERYONE, any age and any race, this is a read I feel that people need to digest and understand.
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