Mass incarceration and the "new Jim Crow" : an interview with Michelle Alexander

Annie Stopford, Llewellyn Smith

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    Abstract

    Civil rights lawyer and legal scholar Michelle Alexander is interviewed by Annie Stopford, a contributing editor of Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society. Professor Alexander's first book, The New Jim Crow : Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness was published by the New Press in 2010 and was on The New York Times Best Seller List for ten consecutive months. Philosopher Cornel West has called The New Jim Crow the "secular bible for a new social movement in early twenty-first-century America."
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)379-391
    Number of pages13
    JournalPsychoanalysis , Culture & Society
    Volume19
    Issue number4
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2014

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