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 &quote;brave and bold,&quote; 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 &quote;we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.&quote; 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 controlrelegating millions to a permanent second-class statuseven 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 &quote;call to action.&quote;Called &quote;stunning&quote; by Pulitzer Prizewinning historian David Levering Lewis, &quote;invaluable&quote; by the Daily Kos, &quote;explosive&quote; by Kirkus, and &quote;profoundly necessary&quote; 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.