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Summary of Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow

Name: Summary of Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow
ISBN: 9798330019908

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Language: English
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Category: True Crime

Get the Summary of Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander explores the evolution of racial caste in America, particularly focusing on the transition from explicit systems of segregation to more covert mechanisms of racial control. The book traces the historical lineage from slavery to the Jim Crow laws, and ultimately to the modern criminal justice system, which Alexander argues functions as a contemporary system of racial subjugation. She examines how the War on Drugs, initiated under the Reagan administration and expanded by subsequent presidents, has disproportionately targeted African American communities, leading to mass incarceration and the creation of a racial undercaste...

Release date

Ebook: 27 March 2024