The New Jim Crow Analysis

To what extent does the Michelle alexander use persuasion in order to show similarity between the Jim Crow and the new American justice system? The new American justice system was believed to be a refined version of the previous Jim crow that promised equality and liberty to all races. The term “Jim crow” refers to the practice of segregating people in the Us The New Jim Crow was published during the year 2010, it is a book written by Michelle alexander, a credible well known American rights litigator and legal scholar and is best known for this book (The New Jim Crow). She is a professor of law at Ohio state university Mortez college of law and a civil rights advocate. Through her book, she acknowledges and discusses race-related issues
The book starts of with the use direct emotional driven language that evokes the feelings of the readers towards those who are discriminated “he slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back into slavery” as a means to appeal to the audience through referencing to the reconstruction period that was ongoing in the United States Of America during the
She further uses more rhetorical questions in instances such as “What did the election of Barack Obama mean for him?” which refers to the ever present struggle of the black community and the inequality that surrounds its justice system within regards to its emphasis on decent. Michelle alexander also uses generalization as she refers to the “black man cowering the street” as “him” and how the election of an African American president had no effect what so ever on the state of the African American community. She describes their state as “the black man cowering in the street” which emphasizes the margin of struggle faced due to the corrupt justice system and how the the African American community is still struggling as a result of their social background, the word “black” shifts focus on the reality that color does have a large influence on the justice system as emphasized by Michelle