The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of ColorblindnessModern · Nonfiction, History, Politics
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
2010 · 290 pages · Nonfiction
72
Modern
★ 4.52 on Goodreads · 121K ratings
≈ 7 hours to read · about 2 weeks at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
On the NYT 100 Best Books of the 21st Century list. 4.52★ from 121K Goodreads ratings.
By the numbers
72Must-Read Score
- Critics49 out of 100 · counts 35%+19
- Readers92 out of 100 · counts 50%+53
- Buzz0 out of 100 · counts 15%+0
Buzz rewards prizes and lists from the last few years, so older books start at zero.
Where it ranks
- #7 of the 55 politics books we rank
- #22 of the 220 history books we rank
- #25 of the 318 modern books we rank
- #76 of the 1,344 books we rank
On the lists
- NYT 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
Reads as
True story, Thought-provoking
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