Jim Crow Must Go - The Prison Industrial Complex

The Internet Archive is an excellent place to cruise around for information. There is so much going on there, that you just never know what's going to turn up. Videos, radio and TV programs, old public domain images and texts are among the things I've found. Now I'm going to share a little treat I came upon with you. Would you believe "The New Jim Crow"? Yup it's in there. If you haven't read it yet then fire up your iPod/Pad and get crackin'.

M. Alexander's The New Jim Crow

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Michelle Alexander argues that mass incarceration of people of color in the US constitutes the newest structure of racialized social control, replacing slavery and Jim Crow to create an African American undercaste. She argues that the vastly disproportionate imprisonment (and the resultant disenfranchisement and exclusion from numerous aspects of mainstream society such as education and employment) of African Americans constitutes the single most important impediment to equality and civil rights..

Listen or Download below.

The New Jim Crow: Introduction

The New Jim Crow: Chapter One - "The Rebirth of Caste" Part 1
The New Jim Crow: Chapter One - Part 2

The New Jim Crow: Chapter Two - "The Lockdown" Part 1
The New Jim Crow: Chapter Two - Part 2

See the results of my New Jim Crow search

http://archive.org/search.php?query=new%20jim%20crow%20AND%20mediatype%3Aaudio