Review by Michelle Alexander in the New York TimesAlexander, a lawyer, legal scholar, and author of the recent book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in an Age of Colorblindness, discusses how hopeful she was when she first read Between the World and Me that it would give Coates’s answers to how to overcome racism; how she was disappointed and overwhelmed by the lack of answers; and how she then reread the book, seeing it in a new light.