The new Jim Crow : mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness

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Label

The new Jim Crow : mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness

Title remainder

mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness

Statement of responsibility

Michelle Alexander

Creator

• Alexander, Michelle

Subject

• African American prisoners -- United States
• Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States
• Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States
• Race discrimination -- United States
• United States -- Race relations
• African American men -- Social conditions

Language

eng

Summary

As the United States celebrates the nation's "triumph over race" with the election of Barack Obama, the majority of young black men in major American cities are locked behind bars or have been labeled felons for life. Although Jim Crow laws have been wiped off the books, an astounding percentage of the African American community remains trapped in a subordinate status, much like their grandparents before them, who lived under an explicit system of control.--Book jacket

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

• 364.973
• 323.1196

Index

index present

LC call number

HV9950

LC item number

.A437 2010

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography