Legal Issues in Daily Life for African Americans
How educational and financial vulnerability creates a new type of slavery and what you can do about it.
In the age of the Prison Industrial Complex, it behooves every black family to make themselves knowledgeable about the law and how it can be applied to our family members, particularly our young men. What might be normal adolescent experimentation can land your son or daughter in jail, their lives transformed forever. Help stop these kinds of sad stories before anymore get started.
Legal scholar and author, Michelle Alexander gives an exhaustive and incredibly revealing explanation of what is happening to young African Americans everyday now in America in her book, The New Jim Crow.
- Publisher: New Press, The; 1 edition (January 5, 2010)
- ISBN-10: 1595581030
- ISBN-13: 978-1595581037
- Available from Amazon for instant Kindle download
Listen to the January 16th, 2012 NPR interview with the author highlighting key components of her theory.