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In her best-selling book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness<\/em>, Michelle Alexander argues that America\u2019s criminal justice system functions as a new type of racial control, targeting black men through the \u201cwar on drugs.\u201d Although Jim Crow laws are a thing of the past, she says millions of black men arrested for minor crimes remain marginalized and disfranchised, trapped by a criminal justice system that labels them felons for life and denies them basic rights and opportunities. In this seminal book, Alexander argues that nothing short of a major social movement is needed to end the mass incarceration of black Americans.[\/vc_column_text][\/qode_elements_holder_item][qode_elements_holder_item item_padding=”10px 0px 0px 0px” vertical_alignment=”top” advanced_animations=”no”][vc_single_image image=”15577″ img_size=”full” qode_css_animation=””][\/qode_elements_holder_item][\/qode_elements_holder][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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