Michelle Alexander
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Michelle Alexander is a author source with an AllSides Media Bias Rating™ of Lean Left.
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Michelle Alexander has a Lean Left media bias. She is an Opinion Page writer for The New York Times, writing on social justice, human rights, mass incarceration, and the law.
Alexander is best known for her 2010 book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. She writes extensively about racial bias in the criminal justice system and argues that "mass incarceration in America functions as a system of racial control in a similar way to how Jim Crow [laws] once operated," according to Wikipedia.
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