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Dec. 1, 2010
The New Jim Crow
In the aftermath of the jury verdict that found BART police officer Johannes Mehserle guilty of no more than involuntary manslaughter for the shooting death of the unarmed Oscar Grant, I pondered, "What is the value of a black man's life?" Michelle Alexander's provocative book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, answers decisively: not much. The author offers e...
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