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Book Review: Michelle Alexander The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. New York: New Press, 2010

A daunting challenge for crime policy in the United States is presented by Michelle Alexander in The New Jim Crow. In this provocative work, Alexander proposes that the racial caste system so blatant in the age of Jim Crow continues to exist in the United States, though in muted form. As our formal, societal rhetoric of “colorblindness” cannot tolerate the overt racism of Jim Crow, racialized social control is now veiled as crime policy: