The New Jim Crow

About The New Jim Crow

Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (2010) demonstrates that the mass incarceration of Black Americans through the War on Drugs constitutes a new system of racialized social control — stripping millions of Black men of voting rights, employment rights, and civic status through criminal conviction in a system that is officially race-neutral but structurally racial in its design and impact. One of the most influential works of legal scholarship and social criticism of the twenty-first century, it has been a New York Times bestseller for more than 250 consecutive weeks.