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

by Michelle Alexander

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• Grade
• 7-12
• Genre
• Nonfiction
• Cultural Area
• African American

• 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

• Lists With This Book
• ELA Mentor Texts Gr. 11-12
• HCS High School Book Club
• This List is Anti-Racist

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