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Program Information
Building Bridges
Weekly Program
Michelle Alexander, , civil rights advocate and litigator, author
 Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg  Contact Contributor
Jan. 8, 2011, 3:04 p.m.
Alexander offers a bold and innovative argument that mass incarceration amounts to a devastating system of racial control. “Jarvious Cotton’s
great-great-grandfather could not vote as a slave. His great-grandfather was beaten to death by the Klu Klux Klan for attempting to vote. His grandfather was prevented from voting by Klan intimidation; his father was barred by poll taxes and literacy tests. Today, Cotton cannot vote because he, like many black men in the United States, has been labeled a felon & is currently on parole.” In this incisive critique, former litigator-turned-legal-scholar Michelle Alexander argues that we have not ended racial caste in America, we have simply redesigned it. Alexander shows that, by targeting black men and decimating communities of color, the U.S. criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control, even as it formally adheres to the
principle of color blindness.
Produced by Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash
please email us if you plan to broadcast this program - knash@igc.org

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