The New Jim Crow

brigit_elizabeth shared a tip "This book is a call to action. If you want to understand mass incarceration in our country and the school to prison pipe line (which should be everyone) read this"

katie_wells shared a tip "I have not read it yet, but it’s way up there on my to read list! I just finished reading The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead and it was very good if you want another recommendation."

christine_la_coursiere shared a tip "I read and own this book. Michelle Alexander lays out beautifully the history that cannot be denied of racism from slavery to the present mass incarceration. She does all the work connecting all the dots for everyone to see and clearly understand the legal ways black and brown bodies are continuing to be oppressed, from the incarcerated to their families and communities. Alexander shows the shifting and evolving ways racism is kept alive through mass incarceration and its effects."

amanda_rudd_479 shared a tip "Alexander poignantly describes how Jim Crow laws never left the US: they took on a new form. Mass incarceration of African-Americans is the new way Jim Crow laws have encroached upon American way of life. Hauntingly masked by the policies of law and order."