In her book‚ The New Jim Crow‚ Michelle Alexander proposes that in order to end this system‚ we must end the War on Drugs. However‚ she also argued that “If we hope to end this system of control‚ we cannot be satisfied with a handful of reforms.” It is true‚ as a complete change
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According to Sources One‚ Two and Three‚ the Jim Crow laws had a major impact upon the legal and social lives of African Americans living in the Southern States‚ which included restriction on speech‚ food and beverage‚ relationships and many more. Firstly‚ in Source 1‚ Clifford Boxley states that African American males “You don’t mess with white women. You don’t talk back to white women. You don’t sass white women. You don’t even find yourself in the presence of white women alone‚ okay?” This situation
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In the new Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander‚ She talked about how the prison system makes it harder for African Americans.When prisoners leaves from prison there mentally still imprisoned there not used to the real world like most of us there more used to be inside of a cell they have to understand the rules and regulations and now they’re being put as a felon. My first claim talks about they lost their right to vote and the reason for that is they show they don’t respect the society it’s a continued
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The Jim Crow laws may have been abolished but that does not mean that the injustice for minorities is abolished. Minorities are facing a significant amount of injustice based on their skin color. More African American’s and Latinos are being arrested and discriminated more because of these harsher penalties. For example‚ the war on drugs‚ was actually not a way to get drugs off the streets and to better the communities. The campaign convinced many Americans to go along with it and see that it was
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Background. The ‘Jim Crows Laws’ because not everyone got treated the same. Some blacks got send to jail because they didn’t want to do something for one of the whites. There was a lot of slavery in the old time because a lot of blacks were treated bad. Some blacks migrated to the north because they had the right to vote. Before that the blacks couldn’t vote but government let them to vote unless if they moved to the north. Not everyone had the same race people got treated bad because of their race
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profiling. She worked at private law firms specializing in plaintiff-side class-action lawsuits regarding racial and gender discrimination. She then later became a writer. In The New Jim Crow she exployed the prejustice that black people face in America. She noted that while slavery
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The New Jim Crow “Today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against criminals in nearly all the ways that it was once legal to discriminate against African Americans” states Michelle Alexander‚ (the author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (2010) )‚ in an interview with a nonprofit‚ independent publisher of educational materials known as Rethinking Schools. A perfect example of Michelle Alexander’s statement is Sonya Jennings who is an African American mother
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I listened to the audiobook version of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness and as I listened I walked through the streets of Boston. One night as I listened to Michelle Alexander talk about how African American men are far more likely to be stopped and searched by the police‚ I came across two Emerson Police Officers forcing a black man to the ground. He knelt down with his hands in the air as they patted his body down. Maybe he had done something do deserve this treatment
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The Jim Crow South was an era of intense racism and segregation. Jim Crow was more than oppressive laws; it was life as the South knew it. However‚ underneath the hateful surface‚ the Jim Crow South is more complicated than it is portrayed. Harper Lee explores these issues in her book‚ To Kill a Mockingbird. In the fictional town of Maycomb County‚ Alabama‚ Lee presents the theme of coexistence of black and white in all people and things‚ by illustrating Scout and Jem’s relationship with several
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Jim Crow Rule Jim Crow was a dance made up by a white American. The dance and song itself were written by a comedian Thomas Dartmouth Rice‚ also known as Daddy Rice‚ in 1828‚ which depicted African-American culture. On the other hand‚ the performances were deriding slavery whilst poor African-Americans had to deal with the indignity. That was what the jumped Jim Crow dance and song was all about. The Jim Crow term can be defined as a system of racial oppression. Not long after the Civil War had
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