Michelle Alexander Speaks at 25th Anniversary Celebration for CLAIM
by Michelle Alexander

 activism  motherhood  movement-building

Michelle Alexander is an associate professor of law at Ohio State University and a civil rights advocate, who has litigated numerous class action discrimination cases and has worked on criminal justice reform issues. Also a legal scholar, Alexander recently published her first book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. In it, she examines the intersections between racism, mass incarceration, and the War on Drugs, illustrating their devastating consequences.

Megan Bernard's recent review of the book can be found on the Prison Communication, Activism, Research, and Education Collective (P-CARE) blog.

Another review, published by COLORLINES, examines how Alexander places contemporary incarceration statistics in historical perspective. 

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