Michelle Alexander a civil rights advocate, legal scholar, and New York columnist debunks the myth that racial discrimination was erased with the end of the Jim Crow era. There's a widely held belief that America is a post racial or colorblind society in which race no longer impacts a person's life. Many have used the 2008 election of Barack Obama and the 2020 election of Kamala Harris to support this claim. Alexander argues that the war on drugs and the mass incarceration of primarily low income African American men has created a racial caste system in America. This system continues to decrease opportunities  for social and economic advancement for Black Americans." The New Jim Crow" challenges our conventional thinking about race and shed light on how institutions continue to disempower Black and brown communities.