However, the book was poorly accomplished. I am an academic; I know my rights. The New Jim Crow is important information to add to my intellectual coffers, however it is not essential to my livelihood. Therefore as I read, I asked why a book that should be written for the disenfranchised is written at a college level. A novel with the purpose of exposing Mass Incarceration should be accessible to the incarcerated and their families who are often undereducated or uneducated, not for the small portion of Americans who are highly educated and willingly to read about an ignored subject. The book was redundant, often wordy, and sometimes convoluted for no obvious purpose. If I was a woman working two jobs with barely enough time to sleep or a man in prison trying to educate himself, I would not have the neither the patience nor desire to read The New Jim Crow. For me the writing was not terribly complicated or unmanageable, but I have the luxuries of time, education, and resources; the people who need The New Jim Crow, the people who need to know their rights and the intricacies of the system they live in do not. The New Jim Crow is a wealth of applicable, useful knowledge and wasted
However, the book was poorly accomplished. I am an academic; I know my rights. The New Jim Crow is important information to add to my intellectual coffers, however it is not essential to my livelihood. Therefore as I read, I asked why a book that should be written for the disenfranchised is written at a college level. A novel with the purpose of exposing Mass Incarceration should be accessible to the incarcerated and their families who are often undereducated or uneducated, not for the small portion of Americans who are highly educated and willingly to read about an ignored subject. The book was redundant, often wordy, and sometimes convoluted for no obvious purpose. If I was a woman working two jobs with barely enough time to sleep or a man in prison trying to educate himself, I would not have the neither the patience nor desire to read The New Jim Crow. For me the writing was not terribly complicated or unmanageable, but I have the luxuries of time, education, and resources; the people who need The New Jim Crow, the people who need to know their rights and the intricacies of the system they live in do not. The New Jim Crow is a wealth of applicable, useful knowledge and wasted