Michelle Alexander on the New Jim Crow

Published: Feb. 15, 2011, 9:29 p.m.

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Professor Michelle Alexander, author of \\u2018The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness\\u2019 makes the case that the US\\u2019 criminal justice system policies can be traced directly back to slavery.\\xa0 The target then, and now, are African Americans.

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