S2 Book Club #5: The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander (Introduction & Chapter One)
Propaganda Loves You Book Club Begins The New Jim Crow: Slavery, Jim Crow, and Mass Incarceration
The Propaganda Loves You Book Club launches a read-through of Michelle Alexander’s 2010 book The New Jim Crow (including discussion of the 10th anniversary foreword), focusing on the claim that U.S. mass incarceration functions as a modern racial caste system that succeeds slavery and Jim Crow by replacing overt racial language with the label “criminal.” The hosts react to the persistence and growth of incarceration, discuss Alexander’s framing through Jarvius Cotton’s multi-generation…
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