C. Vann Woodward’s book The Strange Career of Jim Crow is a close look at the struggles of the African American community from the time of Reconstruction to the Civil Rights Movement. The book portrays a scene where the Negroes are now free men after being slaves on the plantations and their adaptation to life as being seen as free yet inferior to the White race and their hundred year struggle of becoming equals in a community where they have always been seen as second class citizens. To really
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Trebor Adams The New Jim Crow In the book “The new Jim Crow” author Michelle Alexander goes in great about a race-related social‚ political‚ and legal phenomena‚ which is mass incarceration. Mass incarceration is the new form of Jim Crow laws because of its effects are not only similar but in its new form more effective. Mass Incarceration causes racial segregation‚ racial discrimination‚ and hinders the advancement of a people through “a tightly networked system of laws‚ policies‚ customs
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called “Jim Crow” laws‚ and they were designed to stop desegregation amongst black and white men. There are many stories to tell about them‚ and how they degraded black men at that time. They allowed the use of any type of tactic to insult black men. Times really have not changed so much with the law and people of the United States often wonder if they cannot trust the people who are suppose to
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Americans. In the current era of political thinking‚ colorblindness‚ or society’s unwillingness to discuss or even recognize race in any way‚ seems to be the dominant perspective. Michelle Alexander‚ in her book‚ The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness shatters this dominantly held ideology. Alexander‚ who for many years worked as a civil rights lawyer‚ uses her vast experience and knowledge concerning the criminal justice system to craft a meticulously researched argument that
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English 102 have shown me the nation we live in has been built off the exploitation of lower class citizens‚ who as a result live in environments cut off from mainstream society. These citizens often experience discrimination as well. Michelle Alexander’s‚ The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration and
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Michelle Alexander who was born in 1968 is an associate professor of law at Ohio State University also a civil rights advocate and a writer. She is a highly acclaimed civil rights lawyer‚ advocate‚ and legal scholar. In recent years‚ she has taught at a number of universities‚ including Stanford Law School‚ where she was an associate professor of law and directed the Civil Rights Clinics. Alexander published the book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. In it‚ she argues
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Alexander’s quote setting off one of the early parts of The New Jim Crow essentially declares the foundation of our country. Although the discrimination isn’t‚ for the most part‚ as out in the open as it used to be‚ it is still maintained by preserving the social castes today. The presence of a social caste system in today’s society implies truthfulness in Alexander’s statement. When Alexander insisted that American democracy was built on a time when the black person was seen as three fifths the
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Alexander‚ Michelle. 2010. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. New York : [Jackson‚ Tenn.]: New Press ; HV9950 .A437 2010 The Birth of Slavery in the US 1. In the 17th century labor for plantations was based on indentured servitude. 2. 1675 Bacon’s Rebellion 3. By 1770 "By the mid-1770s‚ the system of bond labor had been thoroughly transformed into a racial caste system predicated on slavery. "Racial division was a consequence‚ not a precondition of slavery
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that didn’t always help them. Those laws that went against it or found a way around the Civil Rights act of 1866. There have been laws‚ acts‚ and amendments to help end segregation and then there have also been laws to encourage segregation. The Jim Crow laws have discriminated in so many ways since it was created. These laws often kept African Americans from going into certain public places
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 Jim Crow Laws The name for the Jim Crow Laws comes from a character in a Minstrel Show. The Minstrel Show was one of the first forms of American entertainment‚ which started in 1843. They were performed by successors of black song and dance routine actors. The first Minstrel Show was started by a group of four men from Virginia‚ who all painted their faces black and performed a small song and dance skit in a small theater in New York City. Thomas Dartmouth Rice‚ a white
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