The New Jim Crow is a piece of work that delves into the racial issues particularly those of the African-Americans. The book also deals with the mass imprisonment that has been witnessed in the North American country over the years. The document was authored by one of the renowned author, civil rights supporter, and law intellectual named Alexander. The book has been dubbed the worldly bible for conventional social lobby group. The book looks at how the minority groups, which spans the African-Americans and the socially deprived demographics, suffer at the hands of those who are supposed to be guardians of their freedom. As much as these notions form the basis of Alexander’s book, the main element in the book is the congruence between the Jim Crow and the mass imprisonment. Indeed, Alexander utilizes the topic The New Jim Crow as a metaphor for the incarcerations occurring in the Americas in the current world.

Worldviews suggest and view that any discrimination concluded after the civil rights lobby groups in the 1960’s. However, this is not true because the minority groups go through many forms of discrimination even in the current American nation. From the book, Alexander states that the government uses other charges as a scapegoat for the large number of minority groups being jailed in the current United States. Alexander focuses on the war on drugs to prove his point by stating that the justice department uses this vice to discriminate in a way that seems just in the eyes of the citizens and the universe. This aspect of the justice system does not only act as a form of discrimination but also a form of subjugation. Alexander uses the current state of the US penal system as evidence of the way the discrimination has resulted in a large number of innocent citizens being put in jail for framed offends. This trend is greater for the Black Americans and Alexander intimates that if the trend were to persist then more than thirty percent of the Black American males will be incarcerated. The fact that several white Americans are involved in drug trade more than the Blacks shows how this fight is directed at the Black Americans. Thus, the main principal target of the US justice system is driven by race.