DN! Part II: The New Jim Crow (2): Mass Incarceration

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Part II: Michelle Alexander on The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Part II of our interview with legal scholar, civil rights advocate and author Michelle Alexander. Her book is The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. Alexander argues that although Jim Crow laws have been eliminated, the racial caste system it set up was not eradicated. Its simply been redesigned, and now racial control functions through the criminal justice system.







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