The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, 10th Anniversary Edition

Michelle Alexander

Apr 2012 · Recorded Books · Narrated by Karen Chilton

About this audiobook

Seldom does a book have the impact of Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow.
Since it was first published in 2010, it has been cited in judicial decisions and has been
adopted in campus-wide and community-wide reads; it helped inspire the creation of
the Marshall Project and the new $100 million Art for Justice Fund; it has been the
winner of numerous prizes, including the prestigious NAACP Image Award; and it has
spent nearly 250 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.

Most important of all, it has spawned a whole generation of criminal justice
reform activists and organizations motivated by Michelle Alexander’s unforgettable
argument that “we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned
it.” As the Birmingham News proclaimed, it is “undoubtedly the most important book
published in this century about the U.S.”

Now, ten years after it was first published, The New Press is proud to issue a
tenth-anniversary edition with a new preface by Michelle Alexander that discusses the
impact the book has had and the state of the criminal justice reform movement today.

Ratings and reviews

Fantastic. There is a lot of ground to cover when it comes to relationships, political power, and influence within impoverished communities, among minority communities, and alongside communities that continuously bridge that unique, relevant, and vibrant diversity that is available to us in America today.

Such an important book! Probably the most referenced book I've come across in anti-racist literature. The way she connects different forms of system racism is so valuable to understand (mass incarceration, voter suppression, housing segregation, etc.)

If more Americans understood this history (and current reality), we wouldn't be wasting so much time arguing bitterly, nor wasting billions of dollars imprisoning each other. This should be mandatory reading for every high school and university student.