The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
by Michelle Alexander • Related Edition: Spanish-Language
- Grade
- 7-12
- Genre
- Nonfiction
- Cultural Experience
- African American
Year Published 2010
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 1390L
- ATOS Reading Level: Currently Not Available
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- History
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- Administration of criminal justice--United States
- Social Science | Discrimination & Racism
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration--United States
- Prisoners--United States
- Criminal justice, Administration of--United States
- African American prisoners--United States
- Race discrimination
- Race discrimination--United States
- African American men--Social conditions
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | African American Studies
- African Americans--United States
- Social Science | Penology
- United States
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration
- United States--Race relations
- Criminal justice, Administration of
- Sociology
- Race relations
- African American prisoners
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- This List is Anti-Racist
- Power of Peace
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