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EPISODE · Oct 27, 2025 · 23 MIN

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

from Read Between The Lines · host Michelle Alexander

We were told the Civil Rights Movement ended racial caste in America. But what if it didn’t? In her paradigm-shifting book, Michelle Alexander argues that a new system has taken its place, hiding in plain sight. Through the War on Drugs, mass incarceration has created a new racial undercaste, devastating communities of color and stripping millions of their rights to vote, work, and live freely. This is the explosive exposé that reveals how Jim Crow was not abolished, but merely redesigned for our "colorblind" age.

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