"I had been reading Michelle Alexander’s book The New Jim Crow, which talks about mass incarceration and mass incarceration being the new Jim Crow. But I really believe education is also the new Jim Crow right now because there is so much segregation in education, and there’s an excessive system of have and have-nots. So I was first and foremost interested in exploring the school-to-prison pipeline because of how personally it affected some people in my life."
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On how she believes the educational system echoes some of the points that Michelle Alexander raised in “An Interview with Dominique Morisseau” in The Interval (2017 Jul 25)
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