Michelle Alexander — Who We Want to Become: Beyond the New Jim Crow

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On Being : Michelle Alexander — Who We Want to Become: Beyond the New Jim Crow Image

Michelle Alexander — Who We Want to Become: Beyond the New Jim Crow

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The civil rights lawyer Michelle Alexander is one of the people who is waking us up to history we don’t remember, and structures most of us can’t fathom intending to create. She calls the punitive culture that has emerged the “new Jim Crow,” and is making it visible in the name of a fierce hope and belief in our collective capacity to engender the transformation to which this moment is calling.