The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, 10th Anniversary Edition Free Audiobook Download by Michelle Alexander

A major point of the book is that after President Lyndon Johnson's 'Great Society' was proposed in the mid-1960s, the United States saw a mass incarceration boom. The author argues that the prison-industrial complex has replaced slavery as the main form of racial control in America.

Michelle Alexander, author of "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, 10th Anniversary Edition", argues that the United States has turned away from its addiction to mass incarceration and begun a whole new era of racial caste. This book reveals the "new" Jim Crow as different than the old one because it is less violent and more hidden but just as insidious.

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, 10th Anniversary Edition reveals why mass incarceration for people of color is our new system of racial caste and how colorblindness has become a tool for maintaining it. Using research from across the country, author Michelle Alexander argues that America's war on drugs has not only been an abysmal failure but also a deliberate attempt to dismantle communities of color by confining them to prisons and jails.

When scholars and activists talk about mass incarceration in America, they often use the term "The New Jim Crow." This book's thesis is that mass imprisonment in the United States has created a new caste system of African Americans that operates just as brutally and purposefully as Jim Crow.

It's been 10 years since the publication of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, a book that has shaped our understanding of the United States' racist criminal justice system. In this new anniversary edition, we get to hear Karen Chilton read Michelle Alexander's work in her own voice, giving us a glimpse into the author's journey and how she felt about its impact ten years later.