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Feb. 13, 2010

America's Racial Caste System, Redesigned

Elaine Elinson, an author herself, reviews Michelle Alexander's new book "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness."

By Elaine Elinson

America's racial caste system has not been eliminated, it has simply been redesigned, asserts Michelle Alexander in the groundbreaking "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness", published this month by The New Press.

Today, one-third of the nation's young black men are under control of the criminal justice system - either behind bars, or labeled felons for life as they attempt to rebuild their lives while on parol...

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