The New Jim Crow

The New York Times bestseller and 'Bible of a social movement' (San Francisco Chronicle)

The United States has the world's largest prison population, with more than two million behind bars. Alexander says this is mainly due to America's 'war on drugs,' launched in 1982. In The New Jim Crow, she explains how this government initiative has led to America's black citizens being imprisoned on a colossal scale.

A tenth-anniversary edition of the iconic bestseller—"one of the most influential books of the past decade," according to the Chronicle of Higher Education—with a new preface by the author