The New Jim Crow

A longtime civil rights advocate and litigator, Michelle Alexander won a 2005 Soros Justice Fellowship and now holds a joint appointment at the Moritz College of Law and the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at Ohio State University. Alexander served for several years as the director of the Racial Justice Project at the ACLU of Northern California, which spearheaded the national campaign against racial profiling. At the beginning of her career she served as a law clerk on the United States Supreme Court for Justice Harry Blackmun. She lives outside Columbus, Ohio.

出版者:New Press, The

作者:Michelle Alexander

页数:336

出版时间:2012-1-16

价格:USD 19.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9781595586438

图书标签:美国种族社会社会学法律正义扎克伯格书单Zucherberg推荐书

The New Jim Crow was initially published with a modest first printing and reasonable expectations for a hard-hitting book on a tough topic. Now, ten-plus printings later, the long-awaited paperback version of the book Lani Guinier calls "brave and bold," and Pulitzer Prize–winner David Levering Lewis calls "stunning," will at last be available.

In the era of colorblindness, it is no longer socially permissible to use race, explicitly, as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and social contempt. Yet, as legal star Michelle Alexander reveals, today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against convicted criminals in nearly all the ways that it was once legal to discriminate against African Americans. Once you're labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination—employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial of educational opportunity, denial of food stamps and other public benefits, and exclusion from jury service—are suddenly legal.

Featured on The Tavis Smiley Show, Bill Moyers Journal, Democracy Now, and C-Span's Washington Journal, The New Jim Crow has become an overnight phenomenon, sparking a much-needed conversation—including a recent mention by Cornel West on Real Time with Bill Maher&mdas;about ways in which our system of mass incarceration has come to resemble systems of racial control from a different era.

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对黑人的大规模监禁是与种族隔离时代类似的新型社会控制，毒品犯罪中倾向于关押有色人种，司法系统功能失调，出狱后一系列制度性歧视，使他们大多再次回到监狱，别无选择。

对黑人的大规模监禁是与种族隔离时代类似的新型社会控制，毒品犯罪中倾向于关押有色人种，司法系统功能失调，出狱后一系列制度性歧视，使他们大多再次回到监狱，别无选择。

Finally! It was not until the final chapters that the whole truth was delivered throughly from beginning to end and without the bias came from a raged black. Some ideas: The day when people stop talking about race will never come, but it is worth fighting for.