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The New Jim Crow

The New Jim Crow2010

Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Michelle Alexander

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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness is a 2010 book by Michelle Alexander, a civil rights litigator and legal scholar. The book discusses race-related issues specific to African-American males and mass incarceration in the United States, but Alexander noted that the discrimination faced by African-American males is prevalent among other minorities and socio-economically disadvantaged populations. Alexander's central premise, from which the book derives its title, is that "mass incarceration is, metaphorically, the New Jim Crow". --wikipedia

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First published
2010
OL Work ID
OL13826369W

Subjects

Administration of Criminal justiceRace relationsRace discriminationAfrican American prisonersNew York Times bestsellernyt:paperback_nonfiction=2012-01-14Discrimination in criminal justice administrationPrisonersRassendiskriminierungSocial conditionsStrafjustizAfrican American menAfrican AmericansRasdiskrimineringUmschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und AuswandererAfro-amerikanska fångarCriminal LawLAW

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