“New Jim Crow” Book Study Group

Michelle Alexander wrote The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness so that we, as a society, would start a “conversation about the role of the criminal justice system in creating and perpetuating racial hierarchy in the U.S.” We are reviewing the first 3 chapters of the book. Please come for a lively discussion and also pick up your copy. All are welcome! Even if you haven’t read all of the chapters, please come for the discussion.

The New Jim Crow is a stunning account of the rebirth of a caste-like system in the United States, one that has resulted in millions of African Americans locked behind bars and then relegated to a permanent second-class status—denied the very rights supposedly won in the Civil Rights Movement. Since its publication in 2010, the book has appeared on the New York Times bestseller list for more than a year; been dubbed the “secular bible of a new social movement” by numerous commentators, including Cornel West, and has led to consciousness-raising efforts in universities, churches, community centers, re-entry centers, and prisons nationwide. The New Jim Crow tells a truth our nation has been reluctant to face.

Copies of the book are also available from SATX4. Please contact Katherine Gillen at katherine.gillen@gmail.com to request one.

We are meeting at Rosella Coffee, 203 East Jones Avenue #101, San Antonio, TX 78215