Ideal for individuals and groups wishing to go deeper with Michelle Alexander's acclaimed book, The New Jim Crow, these two booklets can be used independently of one another or as a companion set. If you or your group wish to benefit from both booklets, we encourage you to begin with the Study Guide then move on to the Organizing Guide.
This study 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.
An urgent invitation to transformation.
—Dr. Vincent Harding
In answer to The New Jim Crow's bold call to action, this accessible organizing guide puts tools in your hands to help you and your group understand how to make meaningful, effective change.
Learn about your role in movement-building and how to pick and build campaigns that contribute towards the growing national movement to dismantle the largest penal system in the world.
This important resource offers examples from this and other movements, time-tested organizing techniques, and vision and inspiration to challenge, encourage, and motivate.
If you want to take action to build a truly transformative movement for justice, pick up this engaging and insightful guide and read it with a few others. And then take a leap of faith. This guide can be your launching pad.
—Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow
