Michelle Alexander is a highly acclaimed civil rights lawyer, advocate, and legal scholar. She is a former Ford Foundation Senior Fellow and Soros Justice Fellow, has clerked for Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun, and has run the ACLU of Northern California's Racial Justice Project. Alexander is a visiting professor at Union Theological Seminary and an opinion columnist for the New York Times. She lives in Columbus, Ohio.
"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."--Ellis
Cose, 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 "During the past decade, no single
book was more directly responsible for reshaping how the American
public understands race and mass incarceration than Michelle
Alexander's The New Jim Crow."--Carolyn Copeland, Daily Kos
"[The New Jim Crow] took the academy and the streets by storm, and
forced the nation to reconsider the systems that allowed for
blatant discrimination."--The Chronicle of Higher Education
"If you're interested in learning more about the real lives caught
up in our country's justice system, I highly recommend The New Jim
Crow by Michelle Alexander. It offers an eye-opening look into how
the criminal justice system unfairly targets communities of
color--and especially Black communities."
--Bill Gates
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