by Michelle Alexander, Cornel West
I knew this would be a hard read and I was right. I learned so much in this book. I am appalled that this discrimination is going on. I did not know how completely a felony conviction takes over a person's life and how much it ruins that life. This book opened my eyes to the abuses that go on to...
This is an important read for social-justice-oriented folk. Michelle Alexander – a law professor and former ACLU attorney – lays out a cogent argument for mass incarceration and the drug war functioning as systems of racial control, comparable though not identical to prior systems such as Jim Crow. ...
I gained a lot of interesting knowledge, though I was not as shocked by the main thesis as others may be. I agreed with the authors main argument prior to reading the first page and found many of the arguments I have made to others contained within the pages of this book. While this book is well wri...
Even if you're familiar with the subject matter, the book is surprising and saddening. Well-written and well-documented, this is one to recommend to anyone who doesn't see this as a serious and shameful problem. There are quite a few books out now on the drug war and its disproportionate effect on A...
What a spectacular book. I was a bit skeptical of the title going in—it's a bit Godwin-esque to compare all racial injustices to slavery and/or Jim Crow. But she addresses that head-on, with a bit of skepticism on her own part. Having recently read The Warmth of Other Suns and seen some of the ways ...
This is not the sort of American exceptionalism to be proud of. The United States has the highest per capita rate of incarceration of any country in the world. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rateThat means one of two possibilities. Either we're a country of criminals...
Though I'm not convinced of the wisdom of characterizing the gross inequities in the criminal justice system as a "new Jim Crow," Alexander's thoughtful, well-researched book is quite convincing in revealing the deeply embedded racial biases that exist in police methods and tactics and the penal sys...
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