Soros Justice Fellowships
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Michelle Alexander
2005
Stanford University Law School
Alexander will write a book for a mainstream audience that argues that the war on drugs and mass incarceration is "The New Jim Crow." The goal is not to polarize the debate on criminal justice issues, but rather to inspire a new public dialogue regarding the role of the criminal justice system in our society—a dialogue that is premised on the understanding that mass incarceration is the most important racial justice issue of our time. Alexander will strive to reframe the public debate on issues of race and criminal justice by providing a new lens through which the experiences of people of color in the criminal justice system can be interpreted and understood. The book will be aimed at two distinct but overlapping audiences: the civil rights community and the general public, especially people of color. The book will challenge readers to reconceptualize mass incarceration as the defining racial justice issue of the modern era,
just as Jim Crow segregation and slavery were once the defining racial justice issues at earlier points in history.
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Soros Justice Fellowships
