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

Michelle Alexander

Blurb from a JoCoNaut:

An extremely influential book centered around how in the author's words "we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it." This is important for us to understand if we are to have a better understanding of the country we live in.

Content warnings include prison, racism, prison-industrial complex

Content Warnings (suggested by The Story Graph)
Graphic
Racism, Police brutality, Slavery
Moderate
Drug use, Violence, Racial slurs
Minor
Addiction, Gun violence, Death