Prepare a 500-word essay analyzing Michelle Alexander’s “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.” Your analysis should offer an interpretation of the text, an argument about the text, or a statement of the text’s purpose (whatever you choose will serve as your thesis). The analysis should offer textual evidence (meaning content from the text itself) as part of its support of your thesis – remember, your analysis will be the work of explaining why and how the text does what your thesis claims it does and/or says.