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标题：Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow
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作者：Patrick Webb
期刊名称：Reason Papers : A Journal of Interdisciplinary Normative Studies
印刷版ISSN：0363-1893
出版年度：2015
卷号：37
期号：2
页码：233-238
出版社：Reason Papers
摘要：In The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness legal scholar Michelle Alexander offers a unique and comprehensive account of mass incarceration of African Americans in the United States. Focusing on what she calls "racial caste" and social stratification by class, she explores the systemic influence of racism on law enforcement policy in the contemporary United States. In the "Introduction," Alexander describes her thesis by discussing the struggles faced by African Americans today. O n her view, what began early in American history as overt racial discrimination has now been transformed into a racial caste system enforced by what co lloquially goes by the name "the criminal justice system." In fact, she argues, "the criminal justice system" is a racial caste system spearheaded by the war on drugs and the use of incarceration as a means of social control