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Michelle Alexander

Author of "The New Jim Crow," Race-Talk contributor

MICHELLE ALEXANDER is a longtime civil rights advocate and litigator. She won a 2005 Soros Justice Fellowship and now holds a joint appointment at the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity and the Mortiz College of Law at Ohio State University. Alexander served for several years as director of the Racial Justice Project at the ACLU of Northern California, and subsequently directed the Civil Rights Clinics at Stanford Law School, where she was an associate professor. Alexander is a former law clerk for Justice Harry Blackmun on the U.S. Supreme Court, and has appeared as a commentator on CNN, MSNBC, and NPR. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness is her first book.

December 6, 2017

The New Jim Crow: How the War on Drugs Gave Birth to a Permanent American Undercaste
May 25, 2011

Where Have All the Black Men Gone?
May 25, 2011

The New Jim Crow
December 6, 2017

Governor Schwarzenegger's Plan for Prisons Ignores Racial History

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