The New Jim Crow

Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Author: Michelle Alexander
ISBN: 9781595586438

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.

Publisher: The New Press
Publish Date: 2012

Subjects: Social Science / Criminology, Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, Social Science / Penology, Social Science / Discrimination & Race Relations

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Black Resource Center (Location: 1B), Black Resource Center (Location: 1A)