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Michelle Alexander — Who We Want to Become: Beyond the New Jim Crow

On Being with Krista Tippett
On Being with Krista Tippett
Episode • Apr 21, 2016 • 51m

Michelle Alexander — Who We Want to Become: Beyond the New Jim Crow

The civil rights lawyer Michelle Alexander is one of the people who is waking us up to history we don’t remember, and structures most of us can’t fathom intending to create. She calls the punitive culture that has emerged the “new Jim Crow,” and is making it visible in the name of a fierce hope and belief in our collective capacity to engender the transformation to which this moment is calling.