The New Jim Crow

Michelle Alexander 2010

Devastation Rating

Emotionally Ruined
race incarceration justice systemic racism

Our Take

Alexander argues that mass incarceration is racial caste by another name — that the war on drugs was designed to do what Jim Crow could no longer do legally. The evidence is overwhelming and the prose is controlled fury. A book that makes you see the system and then refuse to unsee it.

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