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Summary of The New Jim Crow - Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness - cover

Summary of The New Jim Crow - Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Paul Adams

Publisher: BH

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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander | Conversation Starters

 
When Barack Obama won the presidency in 2009, the world thought that America has finally won over racial discrimination. Legal scholar and civil rights lawyer Michelle Alexander however realizes that this is far from the truth. The New Jim Crow is an exposition of how America has created a caste system through the mass incarceration of blacks who are imprisoned through harsh drug laws. Just like the Jim Crow laws that rendered blacks second-class citizens in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, today’s incarcerated blacks are prevented by the criminal legal system from taking advantage of the their economic, political and social rights as American citizen.
 
Published in 2010, the book was on The New York Times bestseller list for over a year. It is the 2011 NAACP Image Award for best nonfiction.
 
A Brief Look Inside:
 
 
 
EVERY GOOD BOOK CONTAINS A WORLD FAR DEEPER
 
than the surface of its pages. The characters and their world come alive, 
 
and the characters and its world still live on. 
 
Conversation Starters is peppered with questions designed to
 
bring us beneath the surface of the page
 
and invite us into the world that lives on. 
 
 
 
These questions can be used to create hours of conversation:
 
Foster a deeper understanding of the book
 
Promote an atmosphere of discussion for groups
 
Assist in the study of the book, either individually or corporately
 
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Available since: 07/22/2019.

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