Civil rights lawyer and author
Michelle Alexander is an American civil rights lawyer, legal scholar, and author of The New Jim Crow, a landmark bestseller that transformed the national debate on racial justice and mass incarceration. She has clerked for Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun and is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times.
by Michelle Alexander
Alexander argues that mass incarceration has functioned as a racial caste system analogous to Jim Crow, using the War on Drugs to legally strip Black Americans of voting rights, employment, housing, and civic standing. She contends that color-blind rhetoric masks the racialized design and outcomes of modern criminal justice.
The books Michelle Alexander references, cites, and recommends most frequently.
by Will Durant
The Durants compress five thousand years of civilisation into sharp observations on recurring patterns in politics, morality, and economics. Human nature ensures history rhymes.
by Philip Zimbardo
Zimbardo uses his Stanford prison experiment to argue that good people turn evil through situational forces, not character flaws. Systems and authority corrupt more reliably than personality.
by Richard Thaler
Thaler and Sunstein argue that small changes in how choices are presented, nudges, can dramatically improve decisions without restricting freedom. Choice architecture is a powerful tool for public policy and beyond.
Who Michelle draws from, and who draws from Michelle — aggregated across every book in this collection. Counts show the number of citation links, not the depth of each one.