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Michelle Alexander

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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

by Michelle Alexander

Michelle Alexander argues, with a litigator's discipline, that America's war on drugs and its machinery of mass incarceration did not dismantle the country's racial caste system but quietly rebuilt it under a new and colorblind-sounding name. A landmark argument that reshaped a generation's debate.