The civil rights lawyer Michelle Alexander is one of the people who is waking us up to history we don\u2019t remember, and structures most of us can\u2019t fathom intending to create. She calls the punitive culture that has emerged the \u201cnew Jim Crow,\u201d and is making it visible in the name of a fierce hope and belief in our collective capacity to engender the transformation to which this moment is calling.