# Michelle Alexander Michelle Alexander is an American civil rights lawyer and legal scholar and the author of *The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness* (2010), the argument that mass incarceration functions as a racial caste system. She directed the Racial Justice Project at the ACLU of Northern California, ran the Civil Rights Clinic at Stanford Law School, and has written for the *New York Times* opinion section. > [!note] Stub > This is a short entry that hasn't been fully written yet. ## Connections - [[New Jim Crow]] — her argument and its critics - [[Mass Incarceration]] — the subject of her work