{"id":670,"date":"2013-07-15T08:00:13","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T13:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/?p=670"},"modified":"2013-07-14T16:29:49","modified_gmt":"2013-07-14T21:29:49","slug":"michelle-alexander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/2013\/07\/15\/michelle-alexander\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Alexander on The New Jim Crow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michelle Alexander made a shocking claim in her 2010 book <a href=\"http:\/\/newjimcrow.com\/\">The New Jim Crow<\/a>: In the wake of the civil rights era, she argues, criminal punishment has come to succeed slavery and legal discrimination as a powerful and comprehensive system of racial control in the United States. As a civil rights lawyer and law professor, Dr. Alexander assembled decades of social science evidence in building a strong and convincing case for her provocative claim. The book quickly became a best-seller, inspiring students, prisoners, policy makers, and readers from all walks of life. We spoke with Alexander about exposing\u2014and pushing back against\u2014carceral control, as well as spreading social science beyond academia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/files.thesocietypages.org\/downloads\/OH74_Alexander.mp3\">Download Office Hours #74<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michelle Alexander made a shocking claim in her 2010 book The New Jim Crow: In the wake of the civil rights era, she argues, criminal punishment has come to succeed slavery and legal discrimination as a powerful and comprehensive system of racial control in the United States. As a civil rights lawyer and law professor, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[716],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":672,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions\/672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}