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Name: The New Jim Crow
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Author: Michelle Alexander

📘 The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

In *The New Jim Crow*, civil‑rights lawyer Michelle Alexander explores how the United States’ criminal‑justice system has become a vehicle for racial discrimination and inequality. She argues that the mass incarceration of African‑American men—along with other minorities and socio‑economically disadvantaged populations—constitutes a contemporary form of Jim Crow, a system of racial control that transcends traditional segregation and continues to limit collective freedom. Alexander draws on legal precedent, statistical trends, and sociopolitical analyses to demonstrate that criminal‑justice policies, enforcement practices, and sentencing disparities systematically disadvantage people of color, leaving them stigmatized, disenfranchised, and excluded from full participation in society.

First publish date: January 2010

Genre: History/Modern History

Authors: Michelle Alexander

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