One of the New York Times ’s Best Books of the 21st Century 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.
