Submitted by Nan Ma

Charlene Freyberg (Criminal Justice) and David Spataro (Political Science) will be facilitating a discussion of Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color Blindness on 2/23 at 12:30pm in C120.

**Please consider taking your classes to this event and/or giving your students extra credit for attending.

I have excerpted a description of the book from the publisher’s website below:

The New Jim Crow is a stunning account of the rebirth of a caste-like system in the United States, one that has resulted in millions of African Americans locked behind bars and then relegated to a permanent second-class status—denied the very rights supposedly won in the Civil Rights Movement. Since its publication in 2010, the book has appeared on the New York Times bestseller list for more than a year; been dubbed the “secular bible of a new social movement” by numerous commentators, including Cornel West; and has led to consciousness-raising efforts in universities, churches, community centers, re-entry centers, and prisons nationwide. The New Jim Crow tells a truth our nation has been reluctant to face.