Seldom does a book have the impact of The New Jim Crow. Since it was first published in 2010 it has been the winner of numerous awards and has spent nearly 250 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. It has been cited in judicial decisions, read in countless faith-based and secular book clubs, and adopted in campus-wide and community-wide reads. Most important, it has inspired artists, philanthropists policymakers, community leaders, and a whole generation of racial justice activists motivated by Michelle Alezanswer’s searing indictment of our criminal justice system and her unforgettableĀ argument that “we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned.”
Called “stunning” by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Levering Lewis, “invaluable” by the Daily Kos, “explosive” by Kirkus Reviews, and “profoundly necessary” by the Miami Herald, The New Jim Crow has been deemed “undoubtedly the most important books published in this century about the U.S.” (the Birmingham News).
The New Press is now proud to issue a tenth-anniversary edition with a new preface by Michelle Alexander discussing all that has changed and remained the same in our criminal justice system, and our democracy as a whole, since she published this book a decade ago.
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