A longtime civil rights advocate and litigator, Michelle Alexander won a 2005 Soros Justice Fellowship and now holds a joint appointment at the Moritz College of Law and the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at Ohio State University. Alexander served for several years as the director of the Racial Justice Project at the ACLU of Northern California, which spearheaded the national campaign against racial profiling. At the beginning of her career she served as a law clerk on the United States Supreme Court for Justice Harry Blackmun. She lives outside Columbus, Ohio.
The New Jim Crow was initially published with a modest first printing and reasonable expectations for a hard-hitting book on a tough topic. Now, ten-plus printings later, the long-awaited paperback version of the book Lani Guinier calls "brave and bold," and Pulitzer Prize–winner David Levering Lewis calls "stunning," will at last be available.
In the era of colorblindness, it is no longer socially permissible to use race, explicitly, as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and social contempt. Yet, as legal star Michelle Alexander reveals, today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against convicted criminals in nearly all the ways that it was once legal to discriminate against African Americans. Once you're labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination—employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial of educational opportunity, denial of food stamps and other public benefits, and exclusion from jury service—are suddenly legal.
Featured on The Tavis Smiley Show, Bill Moyers Journal, Democracy Now, and C-Span's Washington Journal, The New Jim Crow has become an overnight phenomenon, sparking a much-needed conversation—including a recent mention by Cornel West on Real Time with Bill Maher&mdas;about ways in which our system of mass incarceration has come to resemble systems of racial control from a different era.
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反正我是跳著看的
评分絕對是重要的作品,雖然覺得Alexander偶爾還是混淆瞭aggressive policing和mass incarceration,並且從某種程度上繞開瞭階層差異,但是對於racial undercaste的二等公民描述還是觸目驚心,尤其是和其他相關研究(e.g. school to prison pipeline)聯係起來的話真是很難對現狀感到樂觀。
评分沒想到這種高校暢銷書豆瓣上居然隻有幾十個人讀過,read part of it when I was a sophomore,當時讀瞭不少政治正確的書-the tones are generally "without identifying the existing racial caste system, this thing will never end."
评分當自己真正站在LA的inner city community的那一刻,忽然讀懂瞭書裏所講的所有。我們作為個體是很難打敗偏見的,畢竟是這樣一個根深蒂固的socialization造就瞭我們。然而如果一個社會係統都在針對某一個種族,讓我有種唇亡齒寒的感覺。
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