The New Jim Crow Book Discussion Group Session 3


Event Details


Registration for this program is required. Contact Don Peterson at donpetersonde@gmail.com or 703-963-1871.

Read and discuss Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness beginning on Thursday February 23; 7-9:00 pm at the Unitarian Universalists of Southern Delaware, 30486 Lewes-Georgetown Highway (US Route 9), Lewes. The discussion series continues on March 9, March 23, and April 6, 2017. The discussion group is sponsored by the SDARJ and the Unitarian Universalists of Southern Delaware.

The New Jim Crow is a stunning account of the rebirth of a caste-like system in the United States, one that has resulted in millions of African Americans locked behind bars and then relegated to a permanent second-class status—denied the very rights supposedly won in the Civil Rights Movement. Since its publication in 2010, the book has appeared on the New York Times bestseller list for more than a year; been dubbed the “secular bible of a new social movement” by numerous commentators, and has led to consciousness-raising efforts in universities, churches, community centers, re-entry centers, and prisons nationwide.