The New Jim Crow

• Liked Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow? Then read Policing Black Lives by Robyn Maynard

Once in a great while a book comes along that changes the way we see the world and helps to fuel a nationwide social movement. The New Jim Crow is such a book. Praised by Harvard Law professor Lani Guinier as "brave and bold," this book directly challenges the notion that the presidency of Barack Obama signals a new era of colorblindness. With dazzling candor, legal scholar Michelle Alexander argues that "we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it." By targeting black men through the War on Drugs and decimating communities of colour, the U.S. criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control — relegating millions to a permanent second-class status — even as it formally adheres to the principle of colorblindness. In the words of Benjamin Todd Jealous, president and CEO of the NAACP, this book is a "call to action." (From The New Press)

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Halifax poet El Jones makes her case for why if you liked the American bestseller "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander, you'll love "Policing Black Lives" by Robyn Maynard.