The New Jim Crow"
by Michelle Alexander
All are welcome.
This is a virtual event that begins at 6:45pm Eastern Time.
We will use Zoom breakout rooms during the meeting for small group discussion.
Please read the entire book.
Please purchase and read/listen to "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander before our virtual meeting on Wednesday, March 31st, 7-9pm Eastern Time.
Register at: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-new-jim-crow-by-michelle-alexander-tickets-126688176747
"Once in a great while a book comes along that changes the way we see the world and helps to fuel a nationwide social movement. The New Jim Crow is such a book. Praised by Harvard Law professor Lani Guinier as "brave and bold," this book directly challenges the notion that the election of Barack Obama signals a new era of colorblindness. With dazzling candor, legal scholar Michelle Alexander argues that 'we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.' 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—relegating millions to a permanent second-class status—even as it formally adheres to the principle of colorblindness. In the words of Benjamin Todd Jealous, president and CEO of the NAACP, this book is a "call to action."
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Register at: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-new-jim-crow-by-michelle-alexander-tickets-126688176747
Please purchase and read/listen to "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander before our virtual meeting on Wednesday, March 31st, 7-9pm Eastern Time.