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The Study Guide and Call to Action spans the entirety of The New Jim Crow, engaging the critical questions of how we managed to create, nearly overnight, a penal system unprecedented in world history, and how that system actually functions — as opposed to the way it is advertised. This important new resource also challenges us to search for and admit the truth about ourselves, our own biases ...
Overview. In The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, civil rights lawyer and scholar Michelle Alexander explores the racist origins of America’s system of mass incarceration. Published in 2010, the book has spent over 250 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list. It was named one of the 100 Best Books of the 21st ...
Key Facts about The New Jim Crow. Full Title: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. When Written: 2005-2010. When Published: 2010. Literary Period: Contemporary nonfiction, 21st century African American criticism. Genre: Sociopolitical nonfiction. Setting: United States, focusing mostly on 1980-present.
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness is a nonfiction book published in 2010 by American author and legal scholar Michelle Alexander. The book argues that the War on Drugs and mass incarceration operate as tools of racialized social control and oppression, not unlike the system in place during the Jim Crow era in the ...
Summary: Introduction. Under slavery and under Jim Crow in the United States, African Americans were either explicitly blocked from voting, or had obstacles placed before them, such as “poll taxes” or “literacy tests.”. The “New Jim Crow” does much the same thing by utilizing the criminal justice system. Believing that justice is ...
Alexander details the history of race in America, moving from slavery to the Civil War to Reconstruction to the Jim Crow laws to the Civil Rights Movement. The Movement garnered an intense backlash that conservative politicians yoked in order to gain votes and implement a new, albeit subtler, racial separation.
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The title The New Jim Crow refers to laws that enforced racial segregation in the South. These laws existed from the end of slavery until the civil rights movement 100 years later. The laws mandated segregation between blacks and whites in all public places. Alexander uses the reference to indicate that mass incarceration (confinement to jail ...
