(Chelsea Update would like to thank Kathie Gourlay for the information in this story.)
There will be a discussion of the book, “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness” by Michelle Alexander on Wednesday, May 15, at 7 p.m. at the Michigan Friends Center.
Even if you haven’t read this book, but are interested in this topic, please come, says Kathie Gourlay.
The discussion will be facilitated by Terry Madden, a former public high school teacher and library media specialist, who has led discussion of this book before and has prepared group activities.
Author Alexander, persuasively argues that “We have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.”
She says, “We target black men through the War on Drugs and the U.S. criminal justice system.”
Further information on this topic can be found online by reading James Forman Jr. “Racial Critiques of Mass Incarceration: Beyond the New Jim Crow”.
Forman says the Jim Crow analogy is a simplification of U. S. incarceration and views about it and diminishes our collective memory of the harms of the old Jim Crow.
For directions to the Michigan Friends Center, click here.
For information about other events taking place in Chelsea, click here.
