The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Alexander, Michelle -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Dedication Acknowledgements Preface Introduction Chapter 1 - The Rebirth of Caste

The Birth of Slavery The Death of Slavery The Birth of Jim Crow The Death of Jim Crow The Birth of Mass Incarceration

Chapter 2 - The Lockdown

Rules of the Game Unreasonable Suspicion Just Say No Poor Excuse Kissing Frogs It Pays to Play Waging War Finders Keepers The Shakedown Legal Misrepresentation Bad Deal Time Served The Prison Label

Chapter 3 - The Color of Justice

Picking and Choosing—The Role of Discretion Closing the Courthouse Doors—McCleskey v. Kemp Cracked Up—Discriminatory Sentencing in the War on Drugs Charging Ahead—Armstrong v. United States In Defense of the All-White Jury—Purkett v. Elm The Occupation—Policing the Enemy Unconventional Wisdom Hollow Hope Race as a Factor The End of an Era

Chapter 4 - The Cruel Hand

Brave New World No Place Like Home Boxed In The Black Box Debtor’s Prison Let Them Eat Cake The Silent Minority The Pariahs Eerie Silence Passing (Redux) Gangsta Love The Minstrel Show The Antidote

Chapter 5 - The New Jim Crow

States of Denial How It Works Nothing New? Mapping the Parallels The Limits of the Analogy

Chapter 6 - The Fire This Time

Rethinking Denial—Or, Where Are Civil Rights Advocates When You Need Them? Tinkering Is for Mechanics, Not Racial-Justice Advocates Let’s Talk About Race—Resisting the Temptation of Colorblind Advocacy Against Colorblindness The Racial Bribe—Let’s Give It Back Obama—the Promise and the Peril All of Us or None

Notes Index Copyright Page

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