Ithaca College

Professor Harriet Malinowitz, Department of Writing

WRTG 26300

In this free, one-credit, two-week online elective course we will read the entirety of Michelle Alexander’s landmark book The New Jim Crow and respond via writing and discussion, both asynchronously and on Zoom. 

The writing in this course involves entering into thoughtful and critical dialogue with the book and with your classmates’ responses. The New Jim Crow has become a classic text for helping readers understand how structural racism works through the legal system of our society and how it adapts to changing times – so that while some now claim we have a “colorblind” culture, the ways racism manifests itself have simply shifted into new forms, producing new inequities and harsh restrictions that shatter the lives of many.

Six hours of the course (January 4-15, MWF 4-5pm) will be synchronous, when we will meet on Zoom; the other nine hours will involve asynchronous interaction with your classmates. 

The New Jim Crow is available as an e-book in the Ithaca College Library to IC students.

You can register now. For more information: hmalinowitz@ithaca.edu