The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the
Age of Colorblindness
by Michelle Alexander
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Named
one of the most important nonfiction books of the 21st century by Entertainment
Weekly‚ Slate‚ Chronicle of Higher Education‚ Literary Hub, Book Riot‚ and Zora
A
tenth-anniversary edition of the iconic bestseller—“one of the most influential
books of the past 20 years,” according to the Chronicle of Higher
Education—with a new preface by the author
“It
is in no small part thanks to Alexander’s account that civil rights
organizations such as Black Lives Matter have focused so much of their energy
on the criminal justice system.”
—Adam
Shatz, London Review of Books
Seldom does a book have the
impact of Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow. Since it was first published
in 2010, it has been cited in judicial decisions and has been adopted in
campus-wide and community-wide reads; it helped inspire the creation of the
Marshall Project and the new $100 million Art for Justice Fund; it has been the
winner of numerous prizes, including the prestigious NAACP Image Award; and it
has spent nearly 250 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.
Most important of all, it has
spawned a whole generation of criminal justice reform activists and
organizations motivated by Michelle Alexander’s unforgettable argument that “we
have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.” As the
Birmingham News proclaimed, it is “undoubtedly the most important book
published in this century about the U.S.”
Now, ten years after it was
first published, The New Press is proud to issue a tenth-anniversary edition
with a new preface by Michelle Alexander that discusses the impact the book has
had and the state of the criminal justice reform movement today.
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