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‘The New Jim Crow’

Published on May 26, 2010
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(The Root) — In an excerpt from her new book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander argues that prison has become the tool to minimize black political power.

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