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  1. Michelle Alexander (born October 7, 1967) is an American writer, attorney, and civil rights activist. She is best known for her 2010 book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. Since 2018, she has been an opinion columnist for the New York Times.

  2. Michelle Alexander is a civil rights lawyer, advocate, and legal scholar who wrote the bestselling book The New Jim Crow, which exposed the racial and criminal justice system in the U.S. She has taught at Stanford and Ohio State, clerked for the Supreme Court, and won numerous awards and recognition for her work.

  3. Jan 17, 2020 · Ten years ago, Michelle Alexander, a lawyer and civil-rights advocate, published “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.”

  4. The New Jim Crow is a book by Michelle Alexander that exposes the racial discrimination and injustice in the US criminal justice system. It argues that mass incarceration is a modern form of racial segregation and a new form of Jim Crow.

  5. The New Jim Crow is a bestselling book by civil-rights-lawyer-turned-legal-scholar Michelle Alexander, who argues that the U.S. criminal justice system is a contemporary system of racial control. The book exposes how the War on Drugs and mass incarceration have created a new caste system that denies basic rights to millions of African Americans.

  6. Michelle Alexander is a civil rights lawyer and advocate, a legal scholar and the author of the New York Times best seller “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of...

  7. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness is a 2010 book by Michelle Alexander, a civil rights litigator and legal scholar. The book discusses race-related issues specific to African-American males and mass incarceration in the United States, but Alexander noted that the discrimination faced by African ...