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  • Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, 10th Anniversary Edition
  • Written by: Michelle Alexander
  • Narrated by: Karen Chilton
  • Length: 16 hrs and 57 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (208 ratings)

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Written by: Michelle Alexander
Narrated by: Karen Chilton
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Publisher's Summary

Seldom does a book have the impact of Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow. Since it was first published in 2010, it has been cited in judicial decisions and has been adopted in campus-wide and community-wide reads; it helped inspire the creation of the Marshall Project and the new $100 million Art for Justice Fund; it has been the winner of numerous prizes, including the prestigious NAACP Image Award; and it has spent nearly 250 weeks on the New York Times best seller list.

Most important of all, it has spawned a whole generation of criminal justice reform activists and organizations motivated by Michelle Alexander’s unforgettable argument that “we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it”. As the Birmingham News proclaimed, it is “undoubtedly the most important book published in this century about the U.S.”

Now, 10 years after it was first published, The New Press is proud to issue a 10th-anniversary edition with a new preface by Michelle Alexander that discusses the impact the book has had and the state of the criminal justice reform movement today. 

©2010, 2012, 2020 Michelle Alexander (P)2012, 2020 Recorded Books

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Eye opening and bleak

Anyone who claims the USA is not a systemically racist country is either lying or ignorant. This book lays out the facts to make an iron clad assertion that yes, the USA is and always been a hideous place for people of colour. Sadly, there hasn’t been much indication that the numerous insidious reasons for this racist behaviour are going to change any time soon. The author suggests that a real change would require political will and greater wealth equity...you might as well add flying pigs to that formula because you are just as likely to see hogs on the wing as you’ll see society making any substantial changes. For the people stuck in the racial underclass, I can’t see any meaningful improvements coming.

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Stats that speak

Great overview of how we got from Civil Rights to Human Rights and from King to Obama and still are not at the promiseland.

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A book everyone should listen to.
be accountable for your own learning about systenic racism in the USA.

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Awakening

After the reading of this book i never be the same person. Thank you Michelle Alexander. ps You are one of the most éloquent voice i ever heard Karen Chilton.

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A Must Read

Even 10 years later this still is so relevant. Perhaps even more so, in fact. This book is read so well, and the narrative flows so easily that I could not stop listening.

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Very well written!

Such an eye opener to racism and mass incarceration in the US. Very insightful and well written. A MUST read for all!

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must read book

informative, evocative, infuriating, hopeful, helpful, relevant, analytic, well-documented, and classic. It's impossible to understand our age without this book, and forces you to conclude that you don't need to control an entire people to control the destiny of that people.

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Jaw Dropping

This should be a mandatory read for every American. In a country where freedom is so highly regarded, it is shocking that freedom is denied to so many.

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excellent research and presentation of information

This book really presents the information in a digestible format.

The situation experienced by the black community in the USA is heartbreaking.

I'm not from the USA. My interest in the book is due to the recent events that have occurred. This book sheds a new light on it. It provides a deeper understanding about the tension that obviously exists in the USA.

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must read by all...who wish to be conscious.

loved this book. recommended to me by an activist friend. I owe her a debt of gratitude. that being said activist or not, anyone wanting to be socially conscious needs to read this.

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