Q The New Jim Crow Please answer the following questions about Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow: 1. Summarize Alexander's project in this book, as she herself does in the introduction. What is the purpose of this text? What injustices is she out to expose, and what is the main point of her argument? What does she say is "at stake?" 2. Note the introduction. How does the author answer the notion that "the War on Drugs was launched in response to the crisis caused by crack cocaine in inner city neighborhoods?" Do you find her counterargument, and how she has set this argument up, compelling? By the way, note that she uses "While it is true that..." a template shared in Chapter Six of They Say/I Say. Find one other instance where Alexander presents or meets skepticism, then answers it. Share this instance with us and comment upon its effectiveness. 3. Alexander's chapters frequently begin with a case study of a particular individual, such as Jarvious Cotton, who has suffered some brutal injustice due to the War on Drugs. Comment on the effectiveness of beginning a chapter like this. What are the advantages to doing so? 4. Share one statistic you find particularly convincing in the introduction, Chapter One, or Chapter Two, then share why you find it so. 5. Share one eye-opening moment from your reading from Chapter One, The Rebirth of Caste, and from chapter two, The Lockdown. What surprised you the most in these chapters?