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    Jamie 1 Jamie Zenon Professor Baggett History March 17‚ 2011 Corruption within Forces The New Jim Crow Mass Incarceration in the Age of colorblindness is a writing on how the Jim Crow law came into play and how mass incarceration came into affect. After reading story on how we as African Americans was giving the right to vote through the amendment‚ but the Whiteman imported Jim Crow law which became another mechanism to keep African American in slavery which was very successful. How they

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    generation of individuals amongst us who know what it takes to earn those liberties. Anybody of the age of sixty can tell you about the injustices and injury inflicted upon African American in the past. Enacted between the years of 1876 and 1965‚ Jim Crow laws were local and state laws whose sole purpose was to keep Blacks oppressed. The laws mandated that Whites and Blacks be segregated in all things. In the North‚ de facto segregation was practiced‚ meaning that segregation was not condoned by the

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    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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    In the article‚ The New Jim Crow‚ author and professor Michelle Alexander eloquently examines and delves into how mass incarceration in the United States is a new type of class structure‚ a new racial caste system (Alexander 7). Her motive is to increase understanding on the issue‚ be a force for change‚ and foster dialogue. She provides the reader context on her life by giving personal examples as well as using facts and background to cement her thesis. Alexander constructs both a compelling and

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    February 5‚ 2013 Senior Seminar The New Jim Crow In the book “The New Jim Crow” author Michelle Alexander talks about numerous issues of racial inequality in our criminal justice system. Alexander’s book is something every person who even has an interest in the criminal justice field should read‚ as it really looks beyond the color of a person’s skin. Alexander points out the vast majority of the problems our criminal justice system faces in racial inequality and discrimination. These problems

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    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

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    and teach people about different skills in order to perpetuate our societies‚ as they cannot function if people will never go beyond the basics and specialize. However‚ it is also because of education that we become more holistic people‚ taking in new ideas and thinking about them‚ allowing us to develop ourselves as an individual. This is why education is important in creating informed citizens within our own societies‚ creating our individual “voice” and instigate change within our societies. James

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    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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    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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    In The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness‚ Michelle Alexander examines our current criminal justice system and the mass incarceration of African Americans in the United States. She argues that the War on Drugs and drug offense convictions are the single most compelling cause for the magnitude of people of color behind bars. Prisons are used as a system of racial and social control that function in the same way as Jim Crow laws. It is no longer legal to discriminate against

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