unrecognizable ways that fit into the fabric of the American society to render it nearly invisible to the majority of Americans. Michelle Alexander, in her book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness shatters this dominantly held belief. The New Jim Crow makes a reader extremely question the high rates of incarceration in the United States is an attempt to maintain blacks as an underclass. Michelle Alexander asserts that “[w]e have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely…
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In the Book “The New Jim Crow” Alexander talks about how after Black minorities leave prison their lives are changed completely.They do not have the right to certain things. The system arrests them, lock them in a cage, and then set them free to an unknown world. In the book, Alexander wrote, “The system of mass incarceration operates with stunning efficiency to sweep people of color off the streets, lock them in a cage, and release them into an inferior second-class status”(Alexander 103). The unknown…
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In the book “The New Jim Crow: mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness” by Michelle Alexander’s puts a spotlight directly on what perhaps is one of our greatest national shame’s: the phenomenal rates of incarceration for the people of color in the United States. This is a fact that our nation has been hesitant to face. She powerfully makes the argument that the incarceration industry in the 21st century has become to the resemblance of what Jim Crow segregation was to the 20th century- a…
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Alexander’s The New Jim Crow: Colorblindness In the age of Mass Incarceration, she explains that there are three distinct phases of incarceration that characterize this new era of Jim Crow. Alexander names these phases this way: the roundup, the period of formal control, and lastly, the period of invisible incarceration. According to Alexander, although the Jim Crow era of enforced racial segregation ended years ago, in her view, these three forms of incarceration amount to a new form of racial segregation…
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The New Jim Crow" highlights the racial measurements of the War on Drugs. It contends that government drug approach unjustifiably targets groups of color, keeping a huge number of youthful, black men in a cycle of neediness and in jail. The book starts by discrediting claims that prejudice is dead. The individuals who accept that full uniformity been accomplished would do well to notice numerous African Americans' existence today. A remarkable measure of blacks are still banned from voting in light…
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professor of law at the Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University. In Alexander’s book, The New Jim Crow, The New Press, 2010, she illustrates the devastating effects that mass incarceration in America has on blacks, especially black men. Alexander argues that the current mass incarceration of blacks is very similar to the past slavery system of blacks, and is very similar to the new Jim Crow era that followed it. Alexander further argues that “slavery has not ended for blacks, it has just…
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began to write The New Jim Crow in 2010. In Michelle Alexander’s book, “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness,” the main purpose and intention of this book are to spark up a conversation about the role of the criminal justice system in creating and perpetuating racial hierarchy in the United States. Mass incarceration in the criminal justice system constitutes a new racial caste system of racial oppression that is similar to slavery and the old Jim Crow. Alexander argues…
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The New Caste System: Mass Incarceration of African Americans In The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander expresses her main argument as being that the foundation of Jim Crow has not ended, but has been justified through the context of the United States’ criminal justice system. Alexander claims that African Americans who are labeled as criminals allow for the old ways of discrimination to legally continue. The New Jim Crow system that has been redesigned in America leaves a…
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Lori Davila Mr. Waller AP Language and Composition 08 May 2014 Jim Crow, Ch. 4-5 Discussion Questions: 1. People that are convicted of committing a felony have several rights taken away. Naturally, these rights mostly deal with political liberties. For instance, the convicted individuals are not given the ability to vote or the right to a jury. These consequences stem from the U.S. Constitution; it states that all individuals have the right to the pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness. Because…
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Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in The Age of Colorblindness sheds a new light on the American justice system as she uncovers the ethical issues in the United State’s civil rights. Alexander explains that the most hated group of people in America are criminals as the War on Drugs subjugates, disenfranchises, and impoverishes large numbers of poor African Americans that are average criminals. Discrimination against ex-convicts is now condoned and socially approved. Today…
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