The lecture will be streamed to all IU campuses from the IU Northwest location, where she is appearing in person to discuss her book “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.”
IU-Bloomington’s live stream can be viewed in the Fine Arts Auditorium, Room 102. The viewing is free and open to the public. After the streaming, there will be time for discussion.
Alexander’s book was released in 2010 and appeared on the New York Times bestseller list for more than a year. The book discusses the return of a caste-like system to the United States that allows African Americans to be stuck as second-class citizens, according to an IU Northwest press release.
Her lecture is part of IU Northwest’s initiative titled “One Book ... One Campus ... One community,” which was created to encourage students on campus to examine the issues brought up in the book.
Alexander currently works at the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity and the Moritz College of Law at Ohio State University.
Alison Graham
