The New Jim Crow

Section Description:

Published in 2010, civil rights litigator and legal scholar Michelle Alexander sheds light on the truth about mass incarceration in America, observing and exposing the consistencies of racism, classism, and colorblindess as it pertains to the growing imprisonment of people of color in the United States. In this section of course, we will review Alexander's introduction the The New Jim Crow and how the text of Alexander's book has impacted others, specifically writers on race and race relations in America.

Readings:

FRESH ON AIR: Jim Crow Still Exists in America

By Michelle Alexander for NPR

http://www.npr.org/2012/01/16/145175694/legal-scholar-jim-crow-still-exists-in-america

'The New Jim Crow'

By The Root

http://www.theroot.com/the-new-jim-crow-1790879176

Mapping the New Jim Crow

By Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/10/mapping-the-new-jim-crow/381617/

Drug Policy as Race Policy

By Jennifer Schuessler, The New York Times