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In The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, civil rights lawyer and scholar Michelle Alexander explores the racist origins of America’s system of mass incarceration
. Published in 2010, the book has spent over 250 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list. It is widely considered one of the influential and important non-fiction books of the 21st century—having been cited in numerous judicial decisions and having become a staple in classrooms exploring racial justice.