RT Book
T1 The new Jim Crow: mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness
A1 Alexander, Michelle
LA English
PP Jackson, Tenn.
PB Distributed by Perseus Distribution
YR 2010
PP New York, NY u.a.
PB New Press
YR 2010
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/603668143
AB "As the United States celebrates the nation's "triumph over race" with the election of Barack Obama, the majority of young black men in major American cities are locked behind bars or have been labeled felons for life. Although Jim Crow laws have been wiped off the books, an astounding percentage of the African American community remains trapped in a subordinate status - much like their grandparents before them." "In this incisive critique, former litigator-turned-legal-scholar Michelle Alexander provocatively argues that we have not ended racial caste in America: we have simply redesigned it. Alexander shows that, by targeting black men and decimating communities of color, the U.S. criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control, even as it formally adheres to the principle of color blindness. The New Jim Crow challenges the civil rights community - and all of us - to place mass incarceration at the forefront of a new movement for racial justice in America."--BOOK JACKET
AB "As the United States celebrates the nation's "triumph over race" with the election of Barack Obama, the majority of young black men in major American cities are locked behind bars or have been labeled felons for life. Although Jim Crow laws have been wiped off the books, an astounding percentage of the African American community remains trapped in a subordinate status - much like their grandparents before them." "In this incisive critique, former litigator-turned-legal-scholar Michelle Alexander provocatively argues that we have not ended racial caste in America: we have simply redesigned it. Alexander shows that, by targeting black men and decimating communities of color, the U.S. criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control, even as it formally adheres to the principle of color blindness. The New Jim Crow challenges the civil rights community - and all of us - to place mass incarceration at the forefront of a new movement for racial justice in America."--BOOK JACKET
NO Includes bibliographical references ( p. [249] - 279) and index
CN HV9950
SN 1595581030
SN 9781595581037
K1 Criminal justice, Administration of : United States
K1 African American prisoners
K1 Race discrimination : United States
K1 United States : Race relations
K1 USA : Strafjustiz : Schwarze : Rassendiskriminierung