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Michelle Alexander’s book, The New Jim Crow, examines how mass incarceration in the US serves as a new racial caste system in the “era of colorblindness.”

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Michelle Schusterman

Michelle is a musician, writer, and teacher just trying to see the world while doing what she loves for a living. She's taught ESL in Salvador, Brazil and kindergarten in Suwon, Korea, and now she's a full-time freelance writer living in Seattle (just to keep the city alliteration going). She'll try pretty much any food once and believes coffee is its own food group.

Archived Responses to How US drug laws have created a new racial caste system [Infographic]

  1. Anonymous says:

    Yeah, crack was invented by the MAN to keep a brothah down along with AIDS and WMD’s. I bet U think 9/11 was done by them evil Jooos huh? You racist piece of crap you should have your wealth redistributed. Are you race baiters aware that saying “faggot” now qualifies as domestic disturbance and will get you all the punishments listed on this OBEY style double-plagarized poster? How do you feel about civil rights now? Fuckin hypocrite.

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