The New Jim Crow

Summary

Seldom does a book have the impact of Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow.Since it was first published in 2010, it has been cited in judicial decisions and has beenadopted in campus-wide and community-wide reads; it helped inspire the creation ofthe Marshall Project and the new $100 million Art for Justice Fund; it has been thewinner of numerous prizes, including the prestigious NAACP Image Award; and it hasspent nearly 250 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.Most important of all, it has spawned a whole generation of criminal justicereform activists and organizations motivated by Michelle Alexander’s unforgettableargument that “we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesignedit.” As the Birmingham News proclaimed, it is “undoubtedly the most important bookpublished in this century about the U.S.”Now, ten years after it was first published, The New Press is proud to issue atenth-anniversary edition with a new preface by Michelle Alexander that discusses theimpact the book has had and the state of the criminal justice reform movement today.