{"product_id":"13th-the-new-jim-crow-duvernay-covers-michelle-alexander","title":"Community College Class: \"13th\". \"The New Jim Crow\":  DuVernay covers Michelle Alexander","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness\u003c\/strong\u003e is a book by Michelle Alexander, a civil rights litigator and legal scholar. The book discusses race-related issues specific to African-American males and mass incarceration in the United States, but Alexander noted that the discrimination faced by African-American males is prevalent among other minorities and socio-economically disadvantaged populations. Alexander's central premise, from which the book derives its title, is that \"mass incarceration is, metaphorically, the New Jim Crow\".[1]\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe New Jim Crow:  27 pages 9303 words; some pictures\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOverview\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThough the conventional point of view holds that systemic racial discrimination mostly ended with the civil rights movement reforms of the 1960s, Alexander posits that the U.S. criminal justice system uses the War on Drugs as a primary tool for enforcing traditional, as well as new modes of discrimination and oppression.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e-- These new modes of racism have led to not only the highest rate of incarceration in the world, but also a disproportionately large rate of imprisonment for African American men. Were present trends to continue, Alexander writes, the United States would imprison one third of its African American population. When combined with the fact that whites are more likely to commit drug crimes than people of color, the issue becomes clear for Alexander: \"the primary targets of [the penal system's] control can be defined largely by race\".\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis ultimately leads Alexander to believe that mass incarceration is \"a stunningly comprehensive and well-disguised system of racialized social control that functions in a manner strikingly similar to Jim Crow\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e.\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/8862\/2040\/files\/The_New_Jim_Crow_480x480.jpg?v=1642443977\" alt=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/8862\/2040\/files\/The_New_Jim_Crow_480x480.jpg?v=1642443977\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mr. Brovsky's Vault","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41967069069528,"sku":"3.5","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/8862\/2040\/products\/TheNewJimCrow.jpg?v=1642444100","url":"https:\/\/mr-brovsky.myshopify.com\/products\/13th-the-new-jim-crow-duvernay-covers-michelle-alexander","provider":"Mr. Brovsky's Office","version":"1.0","type":"link"}