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

Alexander, Michelle

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ISBN 10 : 1595581030 ISBN 13 : 9781595581037

Editeur : The New Press, 2010

Synopsis

Once in a great while a book comes along that changes the way we see the world and helps to fuel a nationwide social movement. "The New Jim Crow" is such a book. Praised by Harvard Law professor Lani Guinier as "brave and bold," this book directly challenges the notion that the presidency of Barack Obama signals a new era of colorblindness. With dazzling candor, legal scholar Michelle Alexander ar

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Despite the triumphant dismantling of the Jim Crow Laws, the system that once forced African Americans into a segregated second-class citizenship still haunts America, the US criminal justice system still unfairly targets black men and an entire segment of the population is deprived of their basic rights. Outside of prisons, a web of laws and regulations discriminates against these wrongly convicted ex-offenders in voting, housing, employment and education. Alexander here offers an urgent call for justice.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Michelle Alexander is an associate professor of law at Ohio State University and holds a joint appointment at the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity. Formerly the director of the ACLU s Racial Justice Project in Northern California, Alexander served as a law clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun. Cornel West is the Class of 1943 University Professor at Princeton University.
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À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: The New Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1595581030
• ISBN 13: 9781595581037
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 314