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The New Jim Crow [electronic resource].
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- ISBN: 9781595588197
- ISBN: 1595588191
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (447 p.)
- Publisher: New York : New Press, the, 2012.
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| Formatted Contents Note: | Title Page; Praise; Dedication; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 -- The Rebirth of Caste; The Birth of Slavery; The Death of Slavery; The Birth of Jim Crow; The Death of Jim Crow; The Birth of Mass Incarceration; 2 -- The Lockdown; Rules of the Game; Unreasonable Suspicion; Just Say No; Poor Excuse; Kissing Frogs; It Pays to Play; Waging War; Finders Keepers; The Shakedown; Legal Misrepresentation; Bad Deal; Time Served; The Prison Label; 3 -- The Color of Justice; Picking and Choosing--The Role of Discretion; Closing the Courthouse Doors-- McCleskey v. Kemp -- Cracked Up--Discriminatory Sentencing in the War on DrugsCharging Ahead--Armstrong v. United States; In Defense of the All-White Jury--Purkett v. Elm; The Occupation--Policing the Enemy; Unconventional Wisdom; Hollow Hope; Race as a Factor; The End of an Era; 4 -- The Cruel Hand; Brave New World; No Place Like Home; Boxed In; The Black Box; Debtor's Prison; Let Them Eat Cake; The Silent Minority; The Pariahs; Eerie Silence; Passing (Redux); Gangsta Love; The Minstrel Show; The Antidote; 5 -- The New Jim Crow; States of Denial; How It Works; Nothing New?; Mapping the Parallels -- The Limits of the AnalogyFork in the Road; 6 -- The Fire This Time; Rethinking Denial--Or, Where Are Civil Rights Advocates When You Need Them?; Tinkering Is for Mechanics, Not Racial-Justice Advocates; Let's Talk About Race--Resisting the Temptation of Colorblind Advocacy; Against Colorblindness; The Racial Bribe--Let's Give It Back; Obama--the Promise and the Peril; All of Us or None; Notes; Index; Copyright Page. |
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The New Jim Crow : Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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The New Jim Crow : Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Once in a great while a book comes along that changes the way we see the world and helps to fuel a nationwide social movement. The New Jim Crow is such a book. Praised by Harvard Law professor Lani Guinier as "brave and bold," this book directly challenges the notion that the election of Barack Obama signals a new era of colorblindness. With dazzling candor, legal scholar Michelle Alexander argues that "we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it." By targeting black men through the War on Drugs and decimating communities of color, the U.S. criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control--relegating millions to a permanent second-class status--even as it formally adheres to the principle of colorblindness. In the words of Benjamin Todd Jealous, president and CEO of the NAACP, this book is a "call to action." Called "stunning" by Pulitzer Prize--winning historian David Levering Lewis, "invaluable" by the Daily Kos , "explosive" by Kirkus , and "profoundly necessary" by the Miami Herald , this updated and revised paperback edition of The New Jim Crow , now with a foreword by Cornel West, is a must-read for all people of conscience.
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