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Books by Michelle Alexander

Michelle Alexander is a civil rights lawyer, legal scholar, and advocate who has litigated cases before the Supreme Court. She served as director of the Racial Justice Project at the ACLU of Northern California and as an associate professor at Stanford Law School. She later joined The Ohio State University's Moritz College of Law. Her career in civil rights litigation and academic research on race and criminal justice provided the foundation for The New Jim Crow, first published in 2010. The book has sold more than one million copies and is widely assigned in law schools, sociology programs, and political science courses across the United States.