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Mass incarceration and the “new Jim Crow”: An interview with Michelle Alexander

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Civil rights lawyer and legal scholar Michelle Alexander is interviewed by Annie Stopford, a contributing editor of Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society. Professor Alexander’s first book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness was published by the New Press in 2010 and was on The New York Times Best Seller List for ten consecutive months. Philosopher Cornel West has called The New Jim Crow the “secular bible for a new social movement in early twenty-first-century America.”

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  1. Centre for Health Research, University of Western Sydney,

    Annie Stopford

  2. Bluespark Collaborative: A Film and Research Company, 124 Melville Ave, Dorchester, 02124, MA, USA

    Annie Stopford & Llewellyn Smith

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Stopford, A., Smith, L. Mass incarceration and the “new Jim Crow”: An interview with Michelle Alexander. Psychoanal Cult Soc 19, 379–391 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1057/pcs.2014.32

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