You are invited to a book study on the book The New Jim Crow, by Michelle Alexander. This discussion will be facilitated by Sandy Strauss and Daniela Lazario-Manalo. Sessions are March 6, 13, 20, and 27 at 7:00 pm.
Participants should come prepared for a thoughtful and sometimes disturbing discussion about race and incarceration in America. Black men, black families and others have paid a steep price for the many practices within our judicial system.
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 best seller 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.”
Participants will be asked to read specific chapters on a weekly basis and come prepared to have open and sometimes challenging conversations.
Eventbrite Registration Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/530761581177
Please email bdavidsmith2@gmail.com or call 717-371-1516 if you have questions. Thank you for being life-long learners.
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