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.
Devastating. . . . Alexander does a fine job of truth-telling,
pointing a finger where it rightly should be pointed: at all of us,
liberal and conservative, white and black.
—Forbes
Alexander is absolutely right to fight for what she describes as a
much-needed conversation” about the wide-ranging social costs and
divisive racial impact of our
criminal-justice policies.
—Newsweek
Invaluable . . . a timely and stunning guide to the labyrinth of
propaganda, discrimination, and racist policies masquerading under
other names that comprises what we call justice in America.
—Daily Kos
Many critics have cast doubt on the proclamations of racism’s
erasure in the Obama era, but few have presented a case as powerful
as Alexander’s.
—In These Times
Carefully researched, deeply engaging, and thoroughly readable.
—Publishers Weekly
[Written] with rare clarity, depth, and candor.
—Counterpunch
A call to action for everyone concerned with racial justice and an
important tool for anyone concerned with understanding and
dismantling this oppressive system.
—Sojourners
Undoubtedly the most important book published in this century about
the U.S.
—Birmingham News
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