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The New Jim Crow

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"Now and then a book comes along that might in time touch the public and educate social commentators, policymakers, and politicians about a glaring wrong that we have been living with that we also somehow don't know how to face. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander is such a work"
— The New York Review of Books

"An explosive debut ... alarming, provocative and convincing."
— Kirkus Reviews

"[C]arefully researched, deeply engaging, and thoroughly readable."
— Publishers Weekly