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MAYDAY BOOKS PUBLIC PRESENTATION & DISCUSSION:
The New Jim Crow
A presentation and discussion led by:
Mel Reeves
Journalist and social justice activist, minister.
SUNDAY, JUNE 20, 2010
3:00 PM
Mayday Books
301 Cedar Ave. South on the West Bank in Minneapolis
Come to Mayday Bookstore for a discussion of the issues raised by the recently released book The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander (The New Press, 2010).
Ms Alexander argues that we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it. Jim Crow and legal racial segregation has been replaced by mass incarceration as a system of social control (More African Americans are under correctional control today ... than were enslaved in 1850). Ms. Alexander reviews American racial history from the colonies to the Clinton administration, delineating its transformation into the war on drugs. She offers an acute analysis of the effect of this mass incarceration upon former inmates who will be discriminated against, legally, for the rest of their lives, denied employment, housing, education, and public benefits.
May Day Books is a non-profit, volunteer-run, progressive bookstore. “Not making a profit since 1975!”
In the basement of THE HUB; enter on side of building. There is a large public parking ramp behind the building. For info, call 612-333-4719.
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