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Book TV: Michelle Alexander, "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness"

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Published on Feb 11, 2013

Michelle Alexander argues that the get-tough-on-crime policies that began in the early 1970s were enacted in an effort to push back the gains of the Civil Rights Movement. This effort, she says, has been successful. Prof. Alexander spoke at the University of Tennessee at an event hosted by the university's Africana Studies Program.

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