Michelle Alexander's newest book, The New Jim Crow, takes an in-depth look at the continued presence of racism in a so-called postracial world. While discriminatory practices are shunned and society has turned its shoulder on racism, the world of prejudice still permeates the hallways of America's prisons, according to Alexander. The old-time practices of housing and employment discrimination, loss of suffrage, denial of welfare and public benefits and more have become everyday obstacles for millions of convicted felons in the United States today.
A foreword by Cornel West puts the book in perspective, comparing today's mass imprisonment to the systematic racism and discrimination of decades past.
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