Book · 2000 · Administration of Criminal justice
The New Jim Crow
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Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow takes on racial injustice and mass incarceration. You just read that book, you'll be a completely different person understanding history.
Joe Rogan · The Joe Rogan Experience · Nov 2019 Listen at 1:51:21 What they say about it
- Addresses mass incarceration and justice“about mass incarceration”6
- Recommended reading list“read the new Jim Crow”3
The best things said about it
I read books that pushed me to think about some of these issues, like The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander and others that created a sense of urgency around ensuring our kids received better schools and that our justice system was reformed to facilitate decarceration.
Like read the color of law by Richard Roth seem to really understand how much the government segregated Americans you know read the warmth of other Suns go ahead and read white fragility read the new Jim Crow read how to be an aunt racist.
I think uh uh there are a few things I I think um Michelle Alexander wrote an important book called the new Jim Crow to help people to understand the fact that we now have 2.3 million people in our prisons and largely because of the war and drugs you know so it's like we have 5% of the world's.
Carl Hart The Joe Rogan Experience · Mar 2014 So, the example that they picked was this book The New Jim Crow, which I'm really simplifying there, but makes the argument that the mass incarceration after the war on drugs basically was intended and had the consequence of suppressing African-American communities.
Stephen Dubner Freakonomics Radio · Jun 2026 The writer who had been at the Ohio State Law School when she published her best-selling book called The New Jim Crow about mass incarceration.
Glenn Loury EconTalk · May 2024 Where and when it comes up
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The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander is a groundbreaking sociological study arguing that the American war on drugs functioned as a deliberate system of racial control, driving mass incarceration and stripping millions of African Americans of their basic civil rights. John Legend recommended the book on Pod Save America, stating that it profoundly shaped his urgency around criminal justice reform and decarceration. Heather McGhee also urged listeners to read the work to fully grasp the deep-seated systemic segregation enforced by the government. On The Joe Rogan Experience, Pete Dominick and Dr. Carl Hart both praised the book for exposing the devastating human toll of drug laws that imprisoned millions of people. Stephen Dubner discussed the academic and cultural footprint of Alexander's arguments on Freakonomics Radio, while Rod Blagojevich and Ryan Holiday referenced the text on their respective platforms to examine ongoing debates surrounding felony disenfranchisement, collateral consequences, and the broader realities of American legal and prison reform.
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John Legend I read books that pushed me to think about some of these issues, like 'The New Jim Crow' by Michelle Alexan… 2
Discussed
“I think really was motivated just by me reading about things so I would read books that kind of um pushed me to think about some of these issues um like you know the new gem Crow by Michelle Alexander and and other books that you know made me feel a sense of urgency”
Recommended
“I read books that pushed me to think about some of these issues, like 'The New Jim Crow' by Michelle Alexander and others that created a sense of urgency around ensuring our kids received better schools and that our justice system was reformed to facilitate decarceration.”
Carl Hart I think uh uh there are a few things I I think um Michelle Alexander wrote an important book called the new… 1
Recommended
“I think uh uh there are a few things I I think um Michelle Alexander wrote an important book called the new Jim Crow to help people to understand the fact that we now have 2.3 million people in our prisons and largely because of the war and drugs you know so it's like we have 5% of the world's”
Heather McGhee like read the color of law by Richard Roth seem to really understand how much the government segregated Ame… 1
Recommended
“like read the color of law by Richard Roth seem to really understand how much the government segregated Americans you know read the warmth of other Suns go ahead and read white fragility read the new Jim Crow read how to be an aunt racist”
Joe Rogan Michelle Alexander's the new Jim Crow takes on racial injustice and mass incarceration you just read that b… 1
Recommended
“Michelle Alexander's the new Jim Crow takes on racial injustice and mass incarceration you just read that book you'll be a completely different person understanding history”
Christopher Wong Sort of modern abolitionism. Um it's directly criticizing uh Michelle Alexander's uh the new Jim Crow mass… 1
Discussed
“Sort of modern abolitionism. Um it's directly criticizing uh Michelle Alexander's uh the new Jim Crow mass incarceration in the age of color blindness. And it's also like a volley basically against anyone who's trying to explain mass incarceration through race.”
Elizabeth Harris the new Jem Crow is now on the ebook print combined list and that came out in 2010 that's from Michelle Ale… 1
Discussed
“the new Jem Crow is now on the ebook print combined list and that came out in 2010 that's from Michelle Alexander”
Glenn Loury Michelle Alexander publishes, this is the writer who had been at the Ohio State Law School when she publish… 1
Critiqued
“Michelle Alexander publishes, this is the writer who had been at the Ohio State Law School when she published her best-selling book called The New Jim Crow about mass incarceration.”
Rod Blagojevich how this woman a black woman wrote this bestselling book called the new Jim Crow and how it's an excuse on… 1
Discussed
“how this woman a black woman wrote this bestselling book called the new Jim Crow and how it's an excuse on a reasons that discriminate against black people based upon their felony convictions how they go to prison”
Ryan Holiday Well, you probably know about Michelle Alexander's book, The New Jim Crow. Yes. Okay. 1
Discussed
“Well, you probably know about Michelle Alexander's book, The New Jim Crow. Yes. Okay.”
Stephen Dubner So, the example that they picked was this book The New Jim Crow, which I'm really simplifying there, but ma… 1
Discussed
“So, the example that they picked was this book The New Jim Crow, which I'm really simplifying there, but makes the argument that the mass incarceration after the war on drugs basically was intended and had the consequence of suppressing African-American communities.”
