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"The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the title of this terrific new book by my colleague Michelle Alexander that is just out from The New Press.  Here is a snippet from the text along with the the publisher's description of the work: Jarvious Cotton?s great-great-grandfather could not vote as a slave. His great-grandfather was beaten to death by the Klu Klux Klan for attempting to vote. His grandfather was prevented from voting by Klan intimidation; his father was barred by poll taxes and literacy tests. Today, Cotton cannot vote because he, like many black men in the United States, has been labeled a felon and is currently on parole. ?FROM THE NEW JIM CROW As the United States celebrates the nation?s ?triumph over race? with the election of Barack Obama, the majority of young black men in major American cities are locked behind bars or have been labeled felons for life...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on January 14, 2010 (boomark / email).