The New Jim Crow

Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, 10th Anniversary Edition

By: Michelle Alexander

Narrated by: Karen Chilton

Length: 16 hrs and 57 mins

Publisher's summary

Seldom does a book have the impact of Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow. Since it was first published in 2010, it has been cited in judicial decisions and has been adopted in campus-wide and community-wide reads; it helped inspire the creation of the Marshall Project and the new $100 million Art for Justice Fund; it has been the winner of numerous prizes, including the prestigious NAACP Image Award; and it has spent nearly 250 weeks on the New York Times best seller list.

Most important of all, it has spawned a whole generation of criminal justice reform activists and organizations motivated by Michelle Alexander’s unforgettable argument that “we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it”. As the Birmingham News proclaimed, it is “undoubtedly the most important book published in this century about the U.S.”

Now, 10 years after it was first published, The New Press is proud to issue a 10th-anniversary edition with a new preface by Michelle Alexander that discusses the impact the book has had and the state of the criminal justice reform movement today.

©2010, 2012, 2020 Michelle Alexander (P)2012, 2020 Recorded Books

Eyes opening

This book uncovered the systematic racism in the US.
The book unveiled the chronology of the oppression the black community has been subjected throughout history and breakdowns the the new cast system of mass incarceration
Very insightful

Outstanding!

This an outstanding addition to any reading list on the effects of systemized control of Black and brown bodies in the US because of institutionalized racism, in this case, the drug war and mass incarceration.

Great information; far too long.

There is a lot of education in this book. Some phrases or words can be off-putting but worth tolerating for the sake of understanding. I have recommended this book dozens of times over the course of the past few months.

Everyone Has Something to Learn from This Book

This book is amazing. I have always felt alone in feeling that civil liberties are the most important issue in every election. These issues have been very important to me for a long time, and I felt very informed about them, but this book taught me so many new things.

Alexander puts the War on Drugs at the center of systemic racism. She uses an almost overwhelming amount of statistical studies and legal cases to make the case. She also connects the dots between systemic racism in law enforcement and in other areas of society.

My only regret is choosing to listen to it instead of read it. The narrator does a wonderful job, but this is a book I would have wanted to highlight and expand on through research. At some point I will need to read it again on paper or ebook and dig into her footnotes.

A MUST READ

everyone needs to hear these words!!!!!!! so clear and well written. important information for our nation to improve.

The Open Weeping Wound of American Justice

The New Jim Crow is a shocking scholarly yet simplisticly detailed description of the Indictment against our veiled billion dollar government sanctioned and subsidized American slavery. Michelle Alexander dismisses all the myths and uses raw legal documentation, state & federal legislation, presidential platforms executive orders and signed bills and the actions of the U.S. Supreme Court to paint this heartbreaking portrait of the miscarriage of Justice esperanza against Black and Brown people entangled in our broken legal system.

most important book on racism I've read so far

I had read quite a few, probably six or seven, books in the canon of racism and understanding civil rights through the lens of being a black person. It wasn't until I read this book that I understood the intensity and scope of what faces black men in particular and a growing number of people of color regardless of gender. Our criminal justice system is predicated upon many ideas that we must re-examine and better understand so that we can change them to be adequate instead of methods of enslaving and padding the pockets of prison investors. It is one of the most brutal and unyielding looks at how we must begin to understand and approach racism in our society.

Wow, wish I’d read this 10 years ago.

Please read if you are at all curious about the criminal justice system, and how it is a part of the institutionalized racism that still exists on this country.

Great Book

This book was very informative. It took me a whole to complete it because the content seems so unreal. However, this is the world we live in now but we NEED to make a change for the equity of ALL PEOPLE.

All of us

A must read for every American. A truely ingenious work to cure us all from an affliction which is leading to our demise.