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

Alexander, Michelle; West, Cornel [Introduction]

ISBN 10: 1595586431 / ISBN 13: 9781595586438

Edité par The New Press, 2012

N° de réf. du vendeur 1595586431-3-19781934

Synopsis :

In a bold and innovative argument, a rising legal star shows readers how the mass incarceration of a disproportionate number of black men amounts to a devastating system of racial control. This is a terrifying reality that exists in the UK as much as in the US. Despite the triumphant dismantling of the Jim Crow laws, the system that once forced African-Americans into a segregated second-class citizenship still haunts and the criminal justice system still unfairly targets black men and deprives an entire segment of the population of their basic rights.

À propos 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.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the ...
Éditeur : The New Press
Date d'édition : 2012
Reliure : Paperback
Etat : Good