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 bestseller list. Seldom does a book have the impact of Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow. "It is in no small part thanks to Alexander's account that civil rights organizations such as Black Lives Matter have focused so much of their energy on the criminal justice system." Adam Shatz, London Review of Books Named one of the most important nonfiction books of the 21st century by Entertainment Weekly, Slate, Chronicle of Higher Education, Literary Hub, Book Riot, and ZoraĪ tenth-anniversary edition of the iconic bestseller - "one of the most influential books of the past 20 years," according to the Chronicle of Higher Education - with a new preface by the author
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