This is a Summary of Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of ColorblindnessThe New Jim Crow is a book praised by Harvard Law professor Lani Guinier as 'brave and bold,' this book directly challenges the notion that the election of Barack Obama signals a new era of colorblindness. With dazzling candor, legal scholar Michelle Alexander argues that 'we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.' By targeting black men through the War on Dru