![]() ![]() ![]() Ī longtime civil rights advocate and litigator, Michelle Alexander was a 2005 Soros Justice Fellow. The New Jim Crow challenges the civil rights community - and all of us - to place mass incarceration at the forefront of a new movement for racial justice in America. ![]() criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control, even as it formally adheres to the principle of color blindness. Alexander shows that, by targeting black men and decimating communities of color, the U.S. In this incisive critique, former litigator-turned-legal-scholar Michelle Alexander provocatively argues that we have not ended racial caste in America: we have simply redesigned it. 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 His grandfather was prevented from voting by Klan intimidation his father was barred by poll taxes and literacy tests. His great-grandfather was beaten to death by the Ku Klux Klan for attempting to vote. “Jarvious Cotton’s great-great-grandfather could not vote as a slave. ![]()
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