The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander, 312 pages.I can't believe that it took me so long to read this book. It's been on my list of to-be-read since it came out in 2010. Every word of it rings more true now than it seemed to (to me, in my bubble, anyway). Everything about this book is devastating. I feel like I have heard every (well, almost every) part of this book before, in one forma or another, but having all of the details of how racist, horrible and unfair our justice system is shocking and depressing. Alexander does an excellent job of marshaling her facts and lays out a compelling case that things must change.
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