The New Jim Crow

Jarvious Cotton s great great grandfather could not vote as a slave His great grandfather was beaten to death by the Klu Klux Klan for attempting to vote His grandfather was prevented from voting by Klan intimidation his father was barred by poll taxes and literacy tests Today, Cotton cannot vote because he, like many black men in the United States, has been labeled a felon and is currently on parole As the United States celebrates the nation s triumph over race with the election of Barack Obama, the majority of young black men in major American cities are locked behind bars or have been labeled felons for life Although Jim Crow laws have been wiped off the books, an astounding percentage of the African American community remains trapped in a subordinate status much like their grandparents before them.In this incisive critique, former litigator turned legal scholar Michelle Alexander provocatively argues that we have not ended racial caste in America we have simply redesigned it Alexander shows that, by targeting black men and decimating communities of color, the U.S criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control, even as it formally adheres to the principle of color blindness The New Jim Crow challenges the civil rights community and all of us to place mass incarceration at the forefront of a new movement for racial justice in America. New Read [ The New Jim Crow ] author [ Michelle Alexander ] – kino-fada.fr In February of 2016, a powerful article appeared in The Nation Why Hillary Clinton Doesn t Deserve the Black Vote The name of its author Michelle Alexander struck me as familiar Then I realized she was the Ohio State law professor who had caused some stir five years ago with her book The New Jim Crow, a book which demonstrated how our criminal justice system was in effect littlethan a system of racial oppression It was then I decide I had put off reading The New Jim Crow long enough In February of 2016, a powerful article appeared in The Nation Why Hillary Clinton Doesn t Deserve the Black Vote The name of its author Michelle Alexander struck me as familiar Then I realized she was the Ohio State law professor who had caused some stir five years ago with her book The New Jim Crow, a book which demonstrated how our criminal justice system was in effect littlethan a system of racial oppression It was then I decide I had put off reading The New Jim Crow long enough.Alexander has the credentials and the e... The New Jim Crow Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander will pick up your everyday white liberal guilt, tie it in knots, and leave you wondering how you could have ever been so simple minded as to think colorblindness was benign, let alone desirable While the War on Drugs, hopped up on federal funds and confiscated property, is systematically exploiti...1988 English 201 I was a college freshman, required to write a paper about fads vs trends For reasons I cannot recall, I chose to write about the War on Drugs I can t recall anything about the paper, either, though I can still see the This Is Your Brain On Drugs commercial that was rolled out in 1987 by the Partnership for a Drug Free America Washington D C was embroiled in the Iran Contra Affair It was an election year Perestroika had just begun rolling off western tongues Benazir 1988 English 201 I was a college freshman, required to write a paper about fads vs trends For reasons I cannot recall, I chose to...When the United States now has a prison population of nearly the same size and proportion as Stalinist Russia during the Great Purges, you know there s something deeply wrong with this country We have 760 per 100,000, the Soviets had 800 1.6 million people out of 300 million are in prison today in America The Gulag held 1.7 million in 1953 That sthan all of Hawaii This population includes almost 100,000 minors, and even an increasing proportion of the elderly.How did this happen When the United States now has a prison population of nearly the same size and proportion as Stalinist Russia during the Great Purges, you know there s something deeply wrong with this country We have 760 per 100,000...The New Jim Crow is essential reading for Americans who don t or haven t followed these issues closely over the last 30 years It s a well organized, thoughtful, accessible read neither too light or too cluttered with footnotes If you have followed the reasons for and impacts of the US approach to incarceration on the African American community and be honest with yourself on whether you ve read a few WashingtonPost or Atlantic Magazine articles from time to time or really dug in over time on The New Jim Crow is essential reading for Americans who don t or haven t followed these issues closely over the last 30 years It s a well organized, thoughtful, accessible read neither too light or too cluttered with footnotes If you have followed the reasons for and impacts of the US approach to incarceration on the African American community and be honest with yourself on whether you ve read a few WashingtonPost or Atlantic Magazine articles from time to time or really dug in over time on the data and history , there s little new here, but it s a good reminder and summary, anyway If you want to wake up friends or colleagues about the reality of the so called War on Drugs, mandatory minimums, 3 strikes laws, disparities in sentencing between users of pow...No, black people aren t the majority in our American prisons because they relikely to commit crimes They re there because the War on Drugs has been applied to themfrequently than any other racial group Give a damn, people Read this book and stop lying to yourselves.It is Michelle Alexander s experience as a lawyer which makes this such a successful piece It is not novelty that makes this book so profound, but the authority upon which the argument is made simple statistics and inarguable facts In the very beginning, Mrs Alexander states for whom this book was wri...5 stars for in depth, persuasive and eye opening analysis of complex and important issues In The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander argues that the war on drugs and its consequent incarceration of a disproportionate number of black American men amounts to a new form of racialized social control akin to the Jim Crow laws She does an extraordinary job reviewing history, the different branches of the legal system, and the economic, social and political circumstances of black Americans today She do 5 stars for in depth, persuasive and eye opening analysis of complex and important issues In The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander argues that the war on drugs and its consequent incarceration of a disproportionate number of black American men amounts to a new form of racialized s...One of the most important books I have ever read With eloquence, passion, and careful research, Michelle Alexander shows how slavery in the United States has not disappeared it has just changed shape, into the mass incarceration of black men Among many formidable arguments, Alexander emphasizes the importance of doing away with the notion of colorblindness and how we need to see racethan ever A quote that highlights h...The content of this book is so disturbing that I had to take a break from reading it for a week or so I am still trying to absorb and synthesize the information I will return later to re read the last chapter It is a powerful read, well worth the time and emotional energy I live in a city where I can bike a few miles, cross a few neighborhoods and see the divides between the rich, middle class and poor I live in a city with a stop and frisk policy that unfairly targets African Americans I The content of this book is so disturbing that I had to take a break from reading it for a week or so I am still trying to absorb and synthesize the information I will return later to re read the last chapter It is a powerful read, well worth the time and emotional energy I live in a city where I can bike a few miles, cross a few neighborhoods and see the divides between the rich, middle class and poor I live in a city with a stop and frisk policy that unfairly targets African Americans I live in a city where ex offenders struggle with re entry and probation I live in a city that is a microcosm of America I want to live in a country that embraces all of its citizens, accepts people for who they are and helps people who need support I want to live in a society that does not judge, condemn and blame, but supports, educates and encourages I want the color of my skin to matter in a positive w...

• English
• 24 October 2018
Michelle Alexander
• Hardcover
• 290 pages
• 1595581030
• Michelle Alexander
• The New Jim Crow