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The New Jim Crow Book and DVD Package
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Description
Includes both the
The New Jim Crow
Book and
Speech by Author Michelle Alexander at the Abyssinian Church
on DVD
The New Jim Crow:
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—relegating millions to a permanent second-class status—even as it formally adheres to the principle of colorblindness. 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.
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