A tenth-anniversary edition of the iconic bestseller—“one of
the most influential books of the past 20 years,” according to the
Chronicle of Higher Education—with a new preface by the author
Seldom does a book have the impact of Michelle Alexander’s The
New Jim Crow. Since it was first published in 2010, it has been
cited in judicial decisions and has been adopted in campus-wide and
community-wide reads; it helped inspire the creation of the Marshall
Project and the new $100 million Art for Justice Fund; it has been
the winner of numerous prizes, including the prestigious NAACP Image
Award; and it has spent nearly 250 weeks on the New York Times
bestseller list.
Most important of
all, it has spawned a whole generation of criminal justice reform
activists and organizations motivated by Michelle Alexander’s
unforgettable argument that “we have not ended racial caste in
America; we have merely redesigned it.” As the Birmingham News
proclaimed, it is “undoubtedly the most important book published in
this century about the U.S.”
Now, ten years after
it was first published, The New Press is proud to issue a
tenth-anniversary edition with a new preface by Michelle Alexander
that discusses the impact the book has had and the state of the
criminal justice reform movement today.
