In a story about Alexander’s book, National Public Radio described how mass incarceration today mirrors the Jim Crow laws that segregated America until the mid–1960s:
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander is such a work."
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The New York Review of Books commented, "Now and then a book comes along that might in time touch the public and educate social commentators, policymakers, and politicians about a glaring wrong that we have been living with that we also somehow don't know how to face. In her 2010 book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, civil rights lawyer Michelle Alexander argued that, together, all of this has created a situation in which a disproportionate number of people of color have been relegated to a permanent second–class status.Īlexander’s book changed the conversation about race, racism, and incarceration in the United States. For these African Americans, the gains of the Civil Rights movement have been voided. Nationally, one of every 13 African Americans of voting age is disenfranchised. are denied the right to vote because of their contact with the criminal justice system. Once they’ve been branded as criminals, citizens are often denied housing, social services, and even the right to vote. While African Americans are 13 percent of the general population, they make up forty percent of the prison population.
Black people make up a disproportionate share of the astounding 7 million Americans who are currently behind bars or being monitored by probation or parole officers. More African Americans are under the control of the criminal justice system today than were enslaved in 1850. Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Questions for discussion follow each reading. The second reading examines ways people are challenging the policies mass incarceration and the New Jim Crow. The first reading explores Alexander’s argument that the criminal justice system has created a caste–like system that relegates millions of people of color to a permanent second–class status. This lesson is divided into two readings designed to have students explore the ideas of mass incarceration and the New Jim Crow. Seven years after the book’s publication, how to change the criminal justice system and end the laws that maintain racial disparities remains a burning issue. As the New York Review of Books commented, "Now and then a book comes along that might in time touch the public and educate social commentators, policymakers, and politicians about a glaring wrong that we have been living with that we also somehow don't know how to face. Michelle Alexander’s 2010 book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, changed the conversation about race, racism, and incarceration in the United States.
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