The New Jim Crow Study Guide and Call to Action
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Drawing from and expanding on the themes of Michelle Alexander’s acclaimed best-seller, The New Jim Crow, this in-depth guide provides a launching pad for groups wishing to engage in deep, meaningful dialogue about race, racism, and structural inequality in the age of mass incarceration. The Study Guide and Call to Action spans the entirety of The New Jim Crow, engaging the critical questions of how we managed to create, nearly overnight, a penal system unprecedented in world history, and how that system actually functions — as opposed to the way it is advertised. This important new resource also challenges us to search for and admit the truth about ourselves, our own biases, stereotypes, and misconceptions, and the many ways in which we might actually be part of the problem.
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The New Jim Crow Study Guide and Call to Action - Veterans of Hope
The New Jim Crow Study Guide and Call to Action
© 2013 by the Veterans of Hope Project. All rights reserved.
The Veterans of Hope Project is a multifaceted educational initiative on religion, culture, and participatory democracy. We encourage a healing-centered approach to community-building that recognizes the interconnectedness of spirit, creativity, and citizenship. Our educational materials are designed to support reconciliation, nonviolence, and an appreciation for the value of indigenous and folk wisdom for contemporary times.
The New Jim Crow Study Guide and Call to Action grew out of conversations among Chris Moore-Backman, Vincent Harding, and Michelle Alexander over the course of 2012. Special thanks to photographers Richard Ross, Lloyd DeGrane, Julia Rendleman, Bob
Fitch, and Jon Lowenstein for permission to use their work.
Page citations for The New Jim Crow correspond with the 2012 paperback edition (also available as an e-book).
Design and composition by Bookbright Media.
Created into e-book by Daniel Hunter, 2015.
Physical copies or ebook of this booklet can be ordered from:
www.NewJimCrowOrganizing.org
On this website you will also find an organizing manual that is designed as a complementary booklet to this resource, especially for groups wanting to move into action.
Photo © Bob Fitch—www.bobfitchphoto.com
In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. and the movement that raised him up as spokesperson.
Foreword
Vincent Harding, Chairperson, the Veterans of Hope Project
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For those of us who have begun to discover the extraordinary experience of Michelle Alexander’s wise and compassionate work, The New Jim Crow, for those of us who wish to enter more fully into the book’s amazing richness, this Study Guide and Call to Action is a great gift and a powerful challenge.
It is a gift because it opens the way for us—individually and collectively—to explore the message of The New Jim Crow even more deeply than we might have been able to without such thoughtful guidance and provocative stimulation. At the same time, this Guide is also an urgent invitation to transformation. For it insists that we take seriously Professor Alexander’s demanding call not simply to read and understand her words, but to hear as well the voice of Martin Luther King Jr. and his countless comrades in struggle, calling to his country, their country, our country, America, you must be born again.
This Study Guide reminds us that Alexander takes King deeply into her heart, and with him she encourages us to do the demanding work of creating a more perfect union
—a country free from the dehumanizing scourge of mass incarceration.
Of course, the Study Guide and Call to Action also challenges us to recognize how much we need each other’s accompaniment for the work at hand: studying, exploring, imagining together, we will likely discover the wisdom of an African-American elder who recently wrote, The American experiment [with multi-racial democracy] is still in the laboratory.
And sister Michelle—along with the Guide and the