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| Author | Michelle Alexander |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | Criminal justice, race discrimination, race relations |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Publisher | The New Press |
Publication date | 2010; new edition 2020 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 312 |
| ISBN | 978-1-59558-643-8 |
| 364.973 | |
| LC Class | HV9950 .A437 |
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness is a 2010 book by Michelle Alexander, a civil rights litigator and legal scholar. The book discusses race-related issues specific to African-American males and mass incarceration in the United States, but Alexander noted that the discrimination faced by African-American males is prevalent among other minorities and socio-economically disadvantaged populations. Alexander's central premise, from which the book derives its title, is that "mass incarceration is, metaphorically, the New Jim Crow".[1]