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Tues 2.09.10| Incarceration As Social Control

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Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness New Press, 2010

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While racial justice advocates focus on affirmative action, millions of African Americans have lost their basic civil rights -- the right to vote, to have access to housing and education -- through the penal system. In a powerful new book, litigator Michelle Alexander argues that the mass incarceration of people of color in this country is a system of social control, similar to Jim Crow segregation, and that a widespread movement is needed to overturn it.

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