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The New Jim Crow

June 04, 2020 by Stesha Brandon
 
The New Jim Crow
 

Celebrating it’s 10th anniversary, civil rights lawyer Michelle Alexander’s influential book discusses how mass incarceration of African-Americans effectively acts as a “New Jim Crow,” creating a caste-like system in the United States.

June 04, 2020 /Stesha Brandon
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