The New Jim Crow
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
(The New Press)
Winner, NAACP Image Award
Finalist, Letitia Woods Brown Book Award
Winner, Emerson Award
Finalist, Silver Gavel Award
Finalist, Phi Beta Kappa
Winner, Constitutional Commentary Award
Silver Medal Winner, Independent Publishers Association
Named a best book for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day by Benjamin Todd Jealous, former President of the NAACP in the Wall Street Journal and “one of the most influential books of the past 20 years,” according to the Chronicle of Higher Education
Mention by Ellis Cose in Newsweek: “Alexander is absolutely right to fight for what she describes as a ‘much needed conversation’ about the wide-ranging social costs and divisive racial impact of our criminal-justice policies.”
Review in New York Review of Books: “Alexander…is striking in the intelligence of her ideas, her powers of summary, and the force of her writing.”
Reviewed by Adam Shatz, London Review of Books: “It is in no small part thanks to Alexander’s account that civil rights organizations such as Black Lives Matter have focused so much of their energy on the criminal justice system.”
And much more.