The new Jim Crow : mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness /
By: Alexander, Michelle [author.].
Publisher: New York : New Press, 2011Edition: Revised edition.Description: xvii, 312 pages : portrait ; 24 cm.Content type: text | text Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9781595586438; 9781595586438:; 1595586431; 9781595588197; 1595588191.Subject(s): Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States | Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States | African American prisoners -- United States | African American men -- Social conditions | Race discrimination -- United States | United States -- Race relationsDDC classification: 305.8960973Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 305.8960973 ALE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 0062324 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-296) and index.
Foreword / Cornel West -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The rebirth of caste -- The lockdown -- The color of justice -- The cruel hand -- The new Jim Crow -- The fire this time.
In a bold and innovative argument, Michelle Alexander, a rising legal star, shows readers how the mass incarceration of a disproportionate number of black men amounts to a devastating system of racial control in the US.