Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“The failure to acknowledge the humanity and dignity of all persons has lurked at the root of every racial caste system”

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

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This will be a short review, as I cannot do justice to Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. This brilliant and searing book has given me so much to think about, that I can’t sort it into a neat review at this time. This is a book that I will be thinking about for months, if not years. The New Jim Crow traces the formation of racial caste in the United States, from slavery to Jim Crow to […]

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (audiobook)

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

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The New Jim Crow @thenewjimcrow – There were a lot of things I wanted to highlight and take notes on. The hypothesis on mass incarceration being the new form of racial control in the US was incredibly compelling and well laid out. Highly recommend

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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color Blindness by Michelle Alexander

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I feel like I’m the last person in my circle to have not read Michelle Alexander’s landmark work The New Jim Crow. It’s one of those books I’d always meant to get to but never had the chance. I borrowed it from someone in my family over a year ago and since I’m going to see them this weekend, I figured there’s no better excuse than that to finally read it. I’ve heard a lot of arguments adjacent to it in favor of ending the drug war […]

“The nature of the criminal justice system has changed. It is no longer primarily concerned with the prevention and punishment of crime, but rather with the management and control of the dispossessed.”

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

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I wouldn’t make this your first anti-racism read, but it’s a must-read after you have some basis of the history of Black people and anti-Black racism in America. Two books I read previous to this one were particularly helpful: Stamped from the Beginning, a comprehensive history of anti-Black racism in America (and, by extension, Black history), and Locking Up Our Own, which has an interesting perspective on the War on Drugs, the justice system, and the history of mandatory minimum sentencing. If you just want […]

Going in, I expected truth. Coming out the other side, I think I just found a conspiracy theory.

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I came into this book, after having read Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow and a few other things that I can’t immediately recall, thinking that the basic premise of this book was an historical fact agreed upon by all knowledgeable people. The CIA helped funnel cocaine into American cities as a way of helping to fund the Contra’s in the 1980s. Whether this was all a concerted effort on the part of the white establishment to intentionally suppress African American agency is an issue […]

A Bit Late to the Party on This One, But Still Relevant

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I have had this book on my iPad forever! Seriously, I think I downloaded it before 13th, the Netflix documentary, was even a development idea. I watched 13th last year, and yet it didn’t spur me to pick this up, but after reading The Hate U Give, this felt like a fitting follow up. I remember being very impressed by 13th, but the nice thing about reading this, is that it really gave me the chance to absorb and contemplate everything, rather than being hit […]



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