“Offers an eye-opening look into how the criminal justice system unfairly targets communities of color, and especially Black communities.
The New Jim Crow
by Michelle Alexander
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“Like many white people, I’ve tried to deepen my understanding of systemic racism in recent months. Alexander’s book offers an eye-opening look into how the criminal justice system unfairly targets communities of color, and especially Black communities.
“Alexander is a law professor at Ohio State University and a civil-rights advocate who argues in her book that the 'war on drugs' has fostered a culture in which nonviolent black males are overrepresented in prison, and then are treated as second-class citizens.