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9781620971949
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" Named one of the most important nonfiction books of the 21st century by Entertainment Weekly&sbquo,Slate&sbquo,Chronicle of Higher Eduction&sbquo,Literary Hub, Book Riot&sbquo,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 It is in no small part thanks to Alexander's account that civil rights organizations such as Black Lives Matter have focused so much of their energy on the criminal justice system. Adam Shatz, London Review of BooksSeldom 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. Now, ten years after it was first published, The New Press is proud to issue a tenth-anniversary edition with a new preface by Michelle Alexander that discusses the impact the book has had and the state of the criminal justice reform movement today. "
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Biographisches: "Michelle Alexander is a highly acclaimed civil rights lawyer, advocate, and legal scholar. She is a former Ford Foundation Senior Fellow and Soros Justice Fellow, has clerked for Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun, and has run the ACLU of Northern California's Racial Justice Project. The New Jim Crow is that rare first book that has received rave reviews and won many awards and prizes,it and Alexander have been featured in countless national radio and television media outlets. Alexander is a visiting professor at Union Theological Seminary and an opinion columnist for the New York Times . She lives in Columbus, Ohio." Rezension(2): " Forbes :“" Rezension(3): " Ellis Cose, Newsweek :“" Rezension(4): " Daily Kos :“" Rezension(5): " In These Times :“" Rezension(6): " Publishers Weekly :“" Rezension(7): " Counterpunch :“" Rezension(8): " Sojourners :“" Rezension(9): " Birmingham News :“"
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English
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Author information:
Alexander, Michelle
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