Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the
Age of Colorblindness is an unflinching dissection of the racial
biases built into the American prison system. Named after the laws
that enforced racial segregation in the southern United States
until the mid-1960s, The New Jim Crow argues that while America is
now legally a colorblind society - treating all races equally under
the law - many factors combine to build profound racial weighting
into the legal system. The US now has the world's highest rate of
incarceration, and a disproportionate percentage of the prison
population is comprised of African-American men. Alexander's
argument is that different legal factors have combined to mean both
that African-Americans are more likely to be targeted by police,
and to receive long jail sentences for their crimes. While many of
Alexander's arguments and statistics are to be found in other books
and authors' work, The New Jim Crow is a masterful example of the
reasoning skills that communicate arguments persuasively.
Alexander's skills are those fundamental to critical thinking
reasoning: organizing evidence, examining other sides of the
question, and synthesizing points to create an overall argument
that is as watertight as it is persuasive.
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