The New Jim Crow
By Michelle Alexander
In the era of colorblindness, it is no longer
socially permissible to use race, explicitly, as a justification for
discrimination, exclusion, and social contempt. Yet, as legal star Michelle
Alexander reveals, today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against convicted
criminals in nearly all the ways that it was once legal to discriminate against
African Americans. Once you're labeled a felon, the old forms of
discrimination-employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the
right to vote, denial of educational opportunity, denial of food stamps and
other public benefits, and exclusion from jury service-are suddenly legal. Full Review
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