The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Michelle Alexander
Publisher: New Press, The

[1] Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. Alexander's talk focuses on the topics addressed in her influential book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. MICHELLE ALEXANDER | Ohio State University Law School, Author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. There is, of course, a colorblind explanation for all this: crime rates. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness is her first book. "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness" by Michelle Alexander. Alexander convincingly shows that the segregationist Jim Crow system was directly transformed into the current system of mass incarceration. Michelle Alexander is the author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (The New Press, 2010). The purpose of Jim Crow, of course, was to keep slavery in place. Part II: Michelle Alexander on “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”. See “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness,” by Michelle Alexander. Jim Crow and legal racial segregation has been replaced by mass incarceration as a system of social control. First, she explains that segregationist politicians often framed their appeals in terms of .. The author of "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness" recently said more African American men are in prison than were enslaved in 1850. Free and open to the public, her talk will be at 7:30 p.m. (New York, The New Press, 2012), 6. Michelle Alexander's book, “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness,” will be the focus of a public forum from 7 to 8:30 p.m.