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Air date:
Thu, 05/27/2010 - 9:30am to 10:00am
Interview, Michelle Alexander on The New Jim Crow
A Deeper Look hosts Michelle Alexander author of;
THE NEW JIM CROW: MASS INCARCERATION IN THE AGE OF COLORBLINDNESS
Michelle Alexander is a legal scholar, who has who has worked in an impressive array of positions related to racial justice and civil rights. In her important new book she makes the case that the disproportionate imprisonment of black men allows the U.S. criminal justice system to function as a contemporary system of racial control.
Tune in for this important conversation.