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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 ...
During discussions it is important to encourage the participation of all members of the group. a. Call on people in turn, with the facilitator letting people know the goal is to maximize participation. b. With the agreement of the group, it may be helpful to have a time limit for responses to questions. 3 minutes is a reasonable time limit.
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 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 ...
This discussion guide is adaptable for congregational, cluster, or district programming for adults of all ages and life stages, for campus groups or young adult groups, or for cross-generational groups. Two formats are offered: A single, 90-minute session. Can be expanded for a two-hour session. Can be offered in two parts to accommodate a 45 ...
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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 ...