The New Jim Crow- Colorblindness Age Mass Incarceration

The paper should be equally divided into two parts. In the first half (approximately 3 pages), describe and summarize the book.  Most of whom have not read the book and probably never will — what a given book is all about. What are the major themes and conclusions of the book? Where is the author coming from? The second part of your paper (and please make it clear where you are starting Part II) should describe your critical reactions to the book.

Here each student has a lot of flexibility, but examples of questions the student might discuss include: What did the author get right (if anything), and what did he/she get wrong (if anything)? Did the book remind you of any events in your own life or of other issues that we discussed in class? What do you feel were the most thought-provoking points in the book? Use specific quotes from the book to support tour thesis, themes, argument and points.

The New Jim Crow- Colorblindness Age Mass Incarceration

Once in a great while a book comes along that changes the way we see the world. This book  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 election 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 color, 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.”

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