![]() ![]() ![]() Ten years ago, Michelle Alexander, a lawyer and civil-rights advocate, published “ The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.” This was less than two years into Barack Obama’s first term as President, a moment when you heard a lot of euphoric talk about post-racialism and “how far we’ve come.” “The New Jim Crow” was hardly an immediate best-seller, but after a couple of years it took off and seemed to be at the center of discussion about criminal-justice reform and racism in America. ![]() Sometimes a book comes along and, after it is absorbed into the culture, we cannot see ourselves again in quite the same way.
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