Virtual Book Club – The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

About this book:

Named one of the most important nonfiction books of the 21st century by Entertainment Weekly’ Slate’ Chronicle of Higher Education’ Literary Hub, Book Riot’ and Zora

A tenth-anniversary edition of the iconic bestseller–“one of the most influential books of the past 20 years,” according to the Chronicle of Higher Education–with a new preface by the author

Seldom does a book have the impact of Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow. Since it was first published in 2010, it has been cited in judicial decisions and has been adopted in campus-wide and community-wide reads; it helped inspire the creation of the Marshall Project and the new $100 million Art for Justice Fund; it has been the winner of numerous prizes, including the prestigious NAACP Image Award; and it has spent nearly 250 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.

Most important of all, it has spawned a whole generation of criminal justice reform activists and organizations motivated by Michelle Alexander’s unforgettable argument that “we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.” As the Birmingham News proclaimed, it is “undoubtedly the most important book published in this century about the U.S.”

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Please join us for our discussion of this book. Even if you are unable to complete the book, please pop in to listen to what is sure to be a great conversation.

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