The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Title The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Names Alexander, Michelle.
Book Number DB074560
Title Status Active
Medium Digital Book
Narrator Strom, Margaret.
Annotation Civil-rights attorney reviews America's racial history and argues that widespread incarceration of African Americans has replaced legal segregation as a means of social control. Suggests the war on drugs creates a pretense for mass arrests and leads to permanent second-class citizenship for former inmates. Foreword by Cornel West. 2010.
Language English
Local Subject Social problems, services & associations - 360
Social problems - Criminology, Crime - 364
Social sciences - 300
Black, African-American Interest - M-BLK
LC Subject African American men - Social conditions
African American prisoners - United States
Criminal justice, Administration of - United States
Discrimination in criminal justice administration - United States
Race discrimination - United States
United States - Race relations
Audience Notes Female narrator. NLS/BPH
Publication Info (Potomac Talking Book Services, recording studio) 2012 (Potomac Talking Book Services, recording studio)
Original Publication Recorded from: New York, N.Y. : New Press ; [Jackson, Tenn.] : Distributed by Perseus Distribution, c2012. 9781595586438
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