Named one of the most important nonfiction books of the 21st century by Entertainment Weekly‚
Slate‚ Chronicle of Higher Education‚ Literary Hub Book Riot‚ and Zora A tenth-anniversary
edition of the iconic bestseller-one of the most influential books of the past 20 years
according to the Chronicle of Higher Education-with a new preface by the author It is in no
small part thanks to Alexander's account that civil rights organizations such as Black Lives
Matter have focused so much of their energy on the criminal justice system. -Adam Shatz London
Review of Books Seldom does a book have the impact of Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow.
Since it was first published in 2010 it has been cited in judicial decisions and has been
adopted in campus-wide and community-wide reads it helped inspire the creation of the Marshall
Project and the new $100 million Art for Justice Fund it has been the winner of numerous
prizes including the prestigious NAACP Image Award and it has spent nearly 250 weeks on the
New York Times bestseller list. Most important of all it has spawned a whole generation of
criminal justice reform activists and organizations motivated by Michelle Alexander's
unforgettable argument that we have not ended racial caste in America we have merely
redesigned it. As the Birmingham News proclaimed it is undoubtedly the most important book
published in this century about the U.S. Now ten years after it was first published The New
Press is proud to issue a tenth-anniversary edition with a new preface by Michelle Alexander
that discusses the impact the book has had and the state of the criminal justice reform
movement today.
