More than a dozen authors, including Lorrie Moore, Naomi Klein, Michelle Alexander, Hisham Matar and Isabella Hammad, have signed a protest letter that announced their withdrawal. By Alexandra ...

Object Details Author Alexander, Michelle West, Cornel Contents The rebirth of caste -- The lockdown -- The color of justice -- The cruel hand -- The new Jim Crow -- The fire this time Summary As the ...

Michelle Alexander, a former ACLU lawyer in the Bay Area and author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, has pointed out that the rush to incarcerate has gotten so ...

Santa Monica Public Library, in partnership with the City Manager’s Office, is hosting a series of Social Justice Book Discussions. The second title in the series is The New Jim Crow: Mass ...

With “The New Jim Crow,” Michelle Alexander made legible to the public the deep and enduring systems of anti-Blackness that were so powerfully obscured during the so-called colorblind era.

“Like many white people, I’ve tried to deepen my understanding of systemic racism in recent months,” Gates wrote. “Alexander’s book offers an eye-opening look into how the criminal ...