The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness - Paperback

Michelle Alexander exposes mass incarceration as a racial caste system equivalent to Jim Crow and slavery.

The New Jim Crow makes the case that the American criminal justice system is not broken but functioning exactly as designed: to perpetuate racial hierarchy. Alexander traces how the logic of the caste system survives under new names.

Essential reading for any faculty member teaching race, criminal justice, American history, or law. It is required in most sociology and political science departments.