The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

The New Jim Crow examines mass incarceration in the United States and argues that racial caste has been redesigned rather than eliminated in America. Since its 2010 publication, the book has been cited in judicial decisions, adopted for campus-wide and community-wide reads, and spent nearly 250 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. It won the NAACP Image Award and has been named one of the most important nonfiction books of the 21st century by multiple publications including Entertainment Weekly, Slate, and Chronicle of Higher Education. The book has influenced criminal justice reform efforts, inspiring the creation of the Marshall Project and the Art for Justice Fund, and has motivated a generation of activists and organizations focused on criminal justice reform. This tenth-anniversary edition includes a new preface by Michelle Alexander discussing the book's impact and the current state of the criminal justice reform movement.