In this groundbreaking and incisive critique, Alexander shows that, by targeting Black men through the War on Drugs and decimating communities of color, the U.S. criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control. The old forms of descrimination--descrimination in employment, housing, education, and public benefits; denial of the right to vote; and exclusion from jury service-- are suddenly legal once you're labeled a felon. Alexander challenges the civil rights community, and all of us, to place mass incaerceation at the forefront of movements for racial justice in America.
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