The New Jim Crow Michelle Alexander forward by Cornell West Law Crime Paperback

The New Jim Crow

by Michelle Alexander

With a new forward by Cornell West

2010, The New Press

NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER, CONSTITUTIONAL COMMENTARY AWARD

"The bible of a social movement. -San Francisco Chronicle

"Devastating. -Forbes Magazine

"An instant classic." -CORNEL WEST

"[An] extraordinary book." MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN

"Striking... Alexander deserves to be compared to Du Bois in her ability to distill and lay out as mighty human drama a complex argument and history." The New York Review of Books

ONCE IN A GREAT WHILE A BOOK COMES ALONG THAT CHANGES the way we see the world and helps to fuel a nationwide social movement. The New Jim Crow is such a book.

Praised by Harvard Law professor Lani Guinier as "brave and bold,"' this book directly challenges the notion that the election of Barack Obama signals a new era of colorblindness. With dazzling candor, legal scholar Michelle Alexander argues that "we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it."

By targeting black men through the War on Drugs and decimating communities of color, the U.S. criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control- elegating millions to a permanent second-class status- even as it formally adheres to the principle of colorblindnes.

In the words of Benjamin Todd Jealous, president and CEO of the NAACP this book is a "call to action."

Called "stunning by Pulitzer Prize- winning historian David Levering Lewis. "invaluable" by the Daily Kos, "explosive" by Kirkus, and "profoundly necessary" by the Miami Herald, this updated and revised paperback edition of The New Jim Crow, now with a foreword by Cornel West, is a must-read for all people of conscience.

Pages in unmarked, unread condition. Minor shelf wear to cover.