Let’s Talk Race Book Group

Date: August 4, 2020
Time: 7 – 8:30 PM
Location: Richland Library Online
Age Recommendation: Adults

Read at your own pace and then join us for a lively digital discussion. This month’s selection is “The New Jim Crow.” It’s available to download via hoopla in eBook format. Register online.

Read at your own pace and then join us at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, August 4 for a lively digital discussion. A link will be sent to the e-mail address associated with your library card one day prior to the event.

The New Jim Crow is available for immediate download for free via Hoopla in eBook format.

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Once in a great while a book comes along that changes the way we see the world and helps to fuel a nationwide social movement. The New Jim Crow is such a book. This book directly challenges the notion that the election of Barack Obama signals a new era of colorblindness. With dazzling candor, legal scholar Michelle Alexander argues that ‘we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.’ By targeting black men through the War on Drugs and decimating communities of color, the U.S. criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control-relegating millions to a permanent second-class status-even as it formally adheres to the principle of colorblindness. In the words of Benjamin Todd Jealous, president and CEO of the NAACP, this book is a ‘call to action.’