A longtime civil rights advocate and litigator, Michelle Alexander won a 2005 Soros Justice Fellowship and now holds a joint appointment at the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity and the Moritz College of Law at Ohio State University. Alexander served for several years as director of Racial Justice Project at the ACLU of Northern California, and subsequently directed the Civil Rights Clinics at Stanford Law School, where she was an associate professor.
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"In this stunning and incisive critique, civil rights lawyer-turned-legal scholar Michelle Alexander argues that we have not ended racial caste in America: we have simply redesigned it. Alexander shows that, by targeting Black men through the War on Drugs and decimating communities of color, the U.S. criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control..."
S p o n s o r s
Hartzell United Methodist Church,
Afri-Ware Bookstore
Bronzeville Visitor Information Center
The Black Star Project
are bringing Michelle Alexander to Chicago to lecture on her internationally acclaimed book.
Book signing and lecture with special guest author
Michelle Alexander
author of
"THE NEW JIM CROW - Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness".
PRE-ORDERING AVAILABLE to get your book signed!
You can pick up in store at your convenience or get it shipped signed.
You don't have to go to the event to get it shipped.
(Signed orders must be placed BEFORE the event. You also can buy the book at
at the event without ordering it in advance.)
Purchase online here
on sale for
signed shipped $27.95+$6.00 shipping/handling
or signed
pickup $27.95
.
Books will be available for purchase and signing.
NOTE: This event is not at Afriware.
This event will
be at
Hartzell United Methodist Church,
3330 South King Drive, Chicago, IL
708-524-8398
3:30pm.
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