The phenomenal New York Times bestseller now published in the UK for the first time.
Michelle Alexander is a civil rights lawyer and advocate, legal scholar and New York Times columnist. She has served as a professor at several universities, including Stanford Law School and is currently a visiting professor at Union Theological Seminary in New York. Prior to entering academia, she served as the director of the Racial Justice Project for the ACLU of Northern California, where she coordinated the media advocacy, grassroots organizing, coalition building, and litigation.
One of the most influential books of the past twenty years
*Chronicle of Higher Education*
Struck the spark that would eventually light the fire of Black
Lives Matter
*New York Times*
Devastating. . . Alexander does a fine job of truth-telling,
pointing a finger where it rightly should be pointed: at all of us,
liberal and conservative, white and black
*Forbes*
Transformed forever the way thinkers and activists view the
phenomenon of mass incarceration
*Slate*
Undoubtedly the most important book published in this century about
the U.S.
*Birmingham News*
Like many white people, I've tried to deepen my understanding of
systemic racism. Alexander's book offers an eye-opening look into
how the criminal justice system unfairly targets communities of
color, and especially Black communities. It's especially good at
explaining the history and the numbers behind mass
incarceration
*Bill Gates*
It is in no small part thanks to Alexander's account that civil
rights organizations such as Black Lives Matter have focused so
much of their energy on the criminal justice system
*London Review of Books*
Invaluable . . . a timely and stunning guide to the labyrinth of
propaganda, discrimination, and racist policies masquerading under
other names that comprises what we call justice in America
*Daily Kos*
Alexander deserves to be compared to Du Bois in her ability to
distill and lay out as mighty human drama a complex argument and
history
*New York Review of Books*
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