In this modern take on Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander presents the evolutionary roots of racism in the United States. She argues that racism is no longer based solely on race, but has transformed to more covert and legal forms through the criminalization of African Americans in the criminal justice system. As soon as a person of color is classified as a felon, it is legal for establishments to discriminate against them virtually as much as it was at the height of the Jim Crow era.…
Growing up in a household without a father has become very common in today’s time, especially within the African American population. There are many children who are being raised without a father figure in their life, and over the years, the disappearance of family-centered males has caused a great concern among black communities around the world. Delano Squires, addresses these issues with the help of Aristotle‘s three strategies for an effective argumentation in his article, “Confronting the Crisis of Father Absence”. Delano Squires uses several strategies to establish credibility, appeal to his/her reader’s logic, and appeal to the reader‘s emotions.…
Michelle Alexander uses her book, The New Jim Crow to prove to society that mass incarceration is a form of racialize social control. I agree with her because a predominant amount of African American males are with held behind bars more than any other race especially caucasians. Everyone faces discrimination is some type of way because it happens within classrooms and public places. The main factor is showing how breaking the law is the new…
“The slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery.” The ”New Jim Crow” by Michelle Alexander, published in 2010, explains the development and constant change of the current racial caste system and its effects on African-Americans and other minorities. She offered a persuasive analysis on why our society is the way it is and how those who are affected can change it.…
This book highlights some modern problems affecting most African American men and families. It also sheds light on how important the family unit is and having a thriving support system when trying to raise children in a society where parents are forced to work two and three jobs just to make ends meet. Both parents of both Wes Moores, they were single-parents doing the best that they could with what they had. Both mothers had to work jobs that required them to spend precious time away from their children. This sounds like the fate of most single-parents and their children (Moore 48). Joy, she worked two jobs in order to send her children to private school and Mary worked to provide for her family (Moore 47). Each families support system became very important. Joy’s son support system was mainly his grandparents when she was at work (Moore 47). However, Mary’s son support system was his older brother who was not a positive role model (Moore 71). The lessons that both young men had an impact in their lives and help to shape their…
In Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina 1896-1920, Glenda Gilmore exposed the benefits of adjusting our angle in studying the southern political narrative of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In studying elite, educated, black and white women, Gilmore found sources that voiced the opinions and views of these women. By placing educated black and white women at the center of her study, Gilmore revealed how the political activism and mutual cooperation by women of both races influenced southern progressivism. Gilmore remarked that her focus on educated female leaders slights the working class point of view, as other stories “remain to be told.” Wilmington’s working class females served…
Imagine yourself walking in the middle of the night, and suddenly, a person approaches you with a gun and threatens to rob you of all your possessions. Take a moment to focus on the robber’s physical appearance, what does the robber look like? Regardless of what the robber looks like, the physical characteristics of him or her have no actual significance. The purpose of this scenario is to show how visualizing and defining a criminal based on physical features is a form of active participation within the system of mass incarceration. The appearance of the theoretical robber was formed from hegemony and preconceived notions of what a robber, or any criminal, looks like. Similarly, during the War on Drugs from the 1980s to the early 2000s, law enforcement sought out possible drug offenders based on hegemonic beliefs of race and class that have developed over time. Consequently, this led to the disproportional incarceration of minority groups, especially African Americans, to the point where they represented over 80 to 90 percent of all arrested drug offenders (Alexander 64).…
The New Jim Crow, written by Michelle Alexander, gives a brief history recount of the past caste systems that have oppressed African-Americans and proposes that today there is a new caste system. She suggests that today’s caste system is created by the U.S. criminal justice system by targeting black men and incarcerating them. In other words, she says that today’s racial caste is based on the mass incarceration of African-Americans.…
Fathers' records proposed that numerous fathers felt tested by the beliefs connected to parenting roles, a test that was aggravated by their own particular reserved formal proficiency limits and, their yearning to encourage their children's early educational development. Fathers' opinions about their children's instructive achievement and future possible outcomes were undecided, frequently suggesting their practices, and some of the time were unpredictable with their self-impression of encouraging children's education accomplishment. The researches Gadsden, Vivian and Aisha remind us that low-salary African American fathers are a diverse crowd, not just in their education abilities, proficiency involvements, education planning, and standards…
The white man’s burden and The home burdens of uncle sam, these two poems were written by Rudyard Kipling and Anna Manning Comfort. Rudyard Kipling, who was an idealist and pro-imperialist writer. When he wrote The white man’s burden, he argued the American should serve the needs of others. In opposite, Anna Manning Comfort, who is an anti-imperialist, wrote The home burdens of uncle sam, which didn’t agree with Mr. Kipling. She thought the American should solve their own problem first, then help others. In their poems, they both kept repeating the same sentence “take up the white man’s burden,” but they have different means on this sentence.…
This week’s readings discussed a concept called “The New Jim Crow” which is about how black people and Latino's are most likely to get more prison time than their counter-parts even when the crime committed is the same. The author goes on to talk about how people who are black and brown get stopped more and searched than any other race. Personally, I think the reason why people who are black and brown are most likely to be stopped and searched is because , in most cases they cannot afford a good lawyer who will stand up for their rights , There are public defenders but they have lot of cases to deal with and paper work with that being said if they can get someone to admit to the crime and do the time and get a shorter sentences they're work…
Michelle Alexander author of "The New Jim Crow" argues that Mass Incarceration has regenerated laws similar to Jim Crow; Alexander believes these caste systems such as Jim Crow and slavery are similar to the existing system of mass incarceration. In addition, Alexander alleges the U.S. criminal justice system created laws that mainly target African Americans through the War on Drugs. In comparing mass incarceration with Jim Crow, Alexander points to compelling parallels regarding political disenfranchisement and legalized discrimination, but her comparison regarding the symbolic production of a race weakens her argument. Alexander, moreover, effectively offers a rebuttal to the counterargument that the New Jim Crow does not carry the same level…
In the state of Connecticut, African Americans often fall victim to stigmas. These recognizing attributes are regularly social objections that can adversely affect African Americans when managing society. African American families are broken and suffer from many instabilities that contribute to their poor quality of live. A study conducted in 1965, “The Moynihan Report”, illustrates the dynamics that negatively impacted black families. Daniel Patrick Moynihan highlights that three centuries of African American mistreatment, during slavery has taken a toll on the black families. After the emancipation of slaves, African Americans still face grave difficulties as they try to assimilate into society. The instabilities in African American lifestyles…
There are over 70 million fathers in the United States, but how many of these fathers actually care about their children? In 2012, 24.4 million fathers were part of married-couple families with children younger than 18. 1.96 million fathers were single. Forty-four percent of these single fathers were divorced and thirty-one percent were never married. Fathers usually leave their children after divorce for the mothers to take care of.…
According to the United States Census Bureau, there is a total of 70.1 million fathers in the United States. But the main focus will be on the father from“Boxing Day” and the father from “202 Checkmates,”In the book “Insurrections: Stories,” by Rion Amilcar Scott. When it comes to these two fathers, they both tend to talk about the past and have had a strong passion for their hobbies; however, their father's hobbies affect their relationship with their families differently.…