Professor Michelle Alexander discusses the systematic incarceration of African American males and how it authorizes discrimination after their release. Overview. Once in a great while a book comes along that changes the way we see the world and helps to fuel a nationwide social movement. The New Jim Crow is such a book. 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. Thursday, January 12th, 2011 @ The Historic Abyssinian Baptist Church in the Village of Harlem: MICHELLE ALEXANDER is a longtime civil rights advocate and. Watch an interview with Michelle Alexander, civil rights advocate, litigator, scholar and author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. A new book by legal scholar and civil rights advocate Michelle Alexander argues that although Jim Crow laws have been eliminated, the racial caste system. Alexander, M. (2010). The new Jim Crow: Mass incarceration in the age of. colorblindness. New York: The New Press. Introduction. Jarvious Cotton cannot vote. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness is a book by Michelle Alexander, a civil rights litigator and legal scholar. Called the secular. The New Jim Crow and over one million other books are available for Amazon Kindle. Learn more How mass incarceration turns people of color into permanent second-class citizens.