Following up on The New Jim Crow | September 10 | 4 p.m. | Smith-Buonano 106
–The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Incoming first-year and transfer students at Brown University will be reading The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander as part of this year’s First Readings program. The book investigates the relationship between race and mass detention in the United States, arguing that the incarceration of disproportionately large numbers of Black people contributes to a new undercaste primarily comprised of people of color.