Michelle Alexander

Publisher's description: Alexander, a civil rights advocate and legal scholar, argues that, despite decades of legal dismantling of Jim Crow and the election of the nation's first black president, the racial caste system has not ended in America; it has only been redesigned. In this legal and historical study, Alexander documents how the targeting of black men by the criminal justice system in the war on drugs functions as a system of racial control:...

En este revolucionario trabajo que ha permanecido por más de dos años en la lista de los libros más vendidos del New York Times, Michelle Alexander argumenta que "no hemos erradicado las castas raciales en Estados Unidos; las hemos meramente rediseñado". Al apuntar a hombres negros por medio de la Guerra contra las Drogas y diezmando las comunidades de gente de color, el sistema de justicia criminal de Estados Unidos funciona como un sistema

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“Essential reading” on some of the most egregious human rights violations within women’s prisons in the United States (Piper Kerman, author of Orange is the New Black)
Here, in their own words, thirteen women recount their lives leading up to incarceration and their harrowing struggle for survival once insides. Among the narrators:
Theresa, who spent years believing her health and life were in danger, being aggressively...