UAAMAC
Cordially Invites You to Attend a
Reception and Book Signing
Judicial Reform Town Hall Meeting

“As the United States Celebrates the nation’s ‘triumph over race” with the election of Barack Obama, the majority of young Black men in American cities are locked behind bars or labeled felons for life. Jim Crow laws were wiped off the books decades ago, but today an astounding percentage of the African American community is warehoused in prison or trapped in a permanent, second-class status much like their grandparents before them, who lived under an explicit system of control.
In this stunning and incisive critique, civil rights lawyer-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 through the War on Drugs and decimating communities of color, the U.S. criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control. In the current era, it is no longer permissible to use race, explicitly, as justification for discrimination, exclusion, and social contempt. Yet it is perfectly legal to discriminate against African Americans. The old forms of discrimination-discrimination in employment, housing, education, and public benefits; denial of the right to vote; and exclusion from jury service- are suddenly legal once you’re labeled a felon.
Alexander challenges the civil rights community, and all of us, to place mass incarceration at the forefront of a new movement for racial justice.”

Author Michelle Alexander
"The New Jim Crow:
Mass Incarceration in
the Age of Colorblindness"

Friday, October 1, 2010 6:00 p.m.
(Reception & Book Signing)
At Joe & Vi Jacobs Center
404 Euclid Avenue
San Diego, CA 92102

Saturday, October 2, 2010 10:00 a.m.
(Judicial Reform Town Hall Meeting w/ Michelle Alexander)
At St. Stephens Cathedral
5825 Imperial Avenue
San Diego, CA 92114