The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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| Rating | : | 4.48 (811 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B007R0L47O |
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| Number of Pages | : | 379 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-12 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
In the era of colorblindness, it is no longer socially permissible to use race, explicitly, as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and social contempt. 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.. 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
Mad Dog said Don't read Coates' book - read this one!. If you really want to know the extent of white privilege and how it survives given that most Americans are not outwardly racist anymore, this is the book for you. As Michelle Alexander points out in great detail, white privilege exists today in America in the form of mass incarceration, the generic term for the fact that despite being a supposedly "free" country, we manage to. Must Read!! This entire book is a MUST read, especially for every US citizen! It takes you from the very beginnings of the War on Drugs, through how the laws are unequally applied (both by law enforcement & the legal system) to the mass incarceration we have today. It then goes on to explain how this new labeling system is then used to discriminate against a large portion of the populati. Essential reading I came into this book with a pretty decent grasp on Alexander's thesis—thanks in part to the deserved hype her work has received over the years—but found myself captivated as she connected the dots on so many different aspects of mass incarceration, the War on Drugs, Jim Crow, and the historical intersection between classism and racism.Alexander notes in her prefa