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
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