The return to a caste system in the United States whereby post-Obama complacency and colourblindness regarding race relations prevented proper vigilance of mass incarceration is the subject of this clear-eyed analysis. }The New Jim Crow{ has taken on an essential position since initial publication Michelle Alexander is a civil rights lawyer and advocate, legal scholar and New York Times columnist. She has served as a professor at several universities, including Stanford Law School and is currently a visiting professor at Union Theological Seminary in New York. Prior to entering academia, she served as the director of the Racial Justice Project for the ACLU of Northern California, where she coordinated the media advocacy, grassroots organizing, coalition building, and litigation.
