Summary Of Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow

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Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in The Age of Colorblindness sheds a new light on the American justice system as she uncovers the ethical issues in the United State’s civil rights. Alexander explains that the most hated group of people in America are criminals as the War on Drugs subjugates, disenfranchises, and impoverishes large numbers of poor African Americans that are average criminals. Discrimination against ex-convicts is now condoned and socially approved. Today, there are more black males under criminal justice control, such as incarceration, parole, and probation, than were enslaved in 1860.(CITATION?)The cumulative impacts of the criminal justice system on the African-American community portrays the greater
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