Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report
National Edition
Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
with
Michelle Alexander, civil rights advocate and litigator, author
Alexander offers a bold and innovative argument that mass incarceration
amounts to a devastating system of racial control. "Jarvious Cotton’s
great-great-grandfather could not vote as a slave. His great-grandfather
was beaten to death by the Klu Klux Klan for attempting to vote. His
grandfather was prevented from voting by Klan intimidation; his father
was barred by poll taxes and literacy tests. Today, Cotton cannot vote
because he, like many black men in the United States, has been labeled
a felon and is currently on parole." In this incisive critique, former litigator-turned-legal-scholar Michelle Alexander argues that we have not ended racial caste in America, we have simply redesigned it. Alexander show that, by targeting black men and decimating communities of color, the U.S. criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control, even as it formally adheres to the principle of color blindness.
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