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Fall 2010
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in an Age of Colorblindness
Reviewed by Dr. Alex Mikulich, Research Fellow
A 2010 Silver medalist at the Independent Publisher Book Awards, The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander frighteningly demonstrates that “we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.”
The United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world, and no other county incarcerates as many of its racial minorities. The U.S. incarcerates a higher percentage of Blacks than South Africa did during the height of apartheid.