{"id":8,"date":"2015-04-20T16:12:20","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T16:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worfdev.services.brown.edu\/create\/firstreading2015\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2026-05-05T17:47:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T17:47:56","slug":"coming-soon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/firstreading2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Page"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"callout\" style=\"margin-top: 20px;\">\n<h5><a href=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/firstreading2015\/september10\/\">Following up on The New Jim Crow | September 10 | 4 p.m. | Smith-Buonano 106<\/a><\/h5>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-14 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/firstreading2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/04\/newJimCrowBookCover.jpg\" alt=\"The New Jim Crow Book Cover\" width=\"605\" height=\"903\"><br>\n<span class=\"attribution\">\u2013<em>The New Jim Crow<\/em>&nbsp;by Michelle Alexander<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"margin-top: 20px; width: 54%;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/firstreading2015\/reading-and-discussing-new-jim-crow\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-185\" src=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/firstreading2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/04\/20150527introductionVideo.jpg\" alt=\"Introducing The New Jim Crow\" width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/firstreading2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/04\/20150527introductionVideo.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/firstreading2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/04\/20150527introductionVideo-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/firstreading2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/04\/20150527introductionVideo-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/firstreading2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/04\/20150527introductionVideo-100x56.jpg 100w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/firstreading2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/04\/20150527introductionVideo-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/firstreading2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/04\/20150527introductionVideo-200x112.jpg 200w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/firstreading2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/04\/20150527introductionVideo-450x253.jpg 450w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/firstreading2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/04\/20150527introductionVideo-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/firstreading2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/04\/20150527introductionVideo-900x506.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><br>\nIncoming first-year and transfer students at Brown University will be reading <em>The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness&nbsp;<\/em>by Michelle Alexander as part of this year\u2019s First Readings program. 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