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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
by Michelle Alexander
Publisher:
The New Press 
Year:
2010 
Reviewed by Jonathan Taylor
5/30/2012

...a major work that definitively documents the racism inherent in the domestic application of the United States’ war on drugs. The historical comparison to the Jim Crow era of entrenched legal discrimination and the contemporary evidence of structural racism in all things police and prison-related are incontrovertible… [ read more ]