This month’s book discussion will feature The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander.

Even with the abolishment of the Jim Crow laws and the Civil Rights Movement, discrimination persists in the criminal justice system. From mass incarceration to trying to live in social system where criminal records inhibit the ability to have access to many of life’s most basic needs and rights, Alexander discusses how the U.S. criminal justice system has and still serves as a form of racial control and discrimination.

Copies of the book will be available at the circulation desk for check out after the August book discussion.