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More than 2 million people found themselves behind bars at the turn of the twenty-first century, and millions more were relegated to…
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The system functioned relatively automatically, and the prevailing system of racial meanings, identities, and ideologies already seemed natural. Ninety percent of those…
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Arguably the most important parallel between mass incarceration and Jim Crow is that both have served to define the meaning and significance…
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Like Jim Crow (and slavery), mass incarceration operates as a tightly networked system of laws, policies, customs, and institutions that operate collectively…
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The rules and reasons the political system employs to enforce status relations of any kind, including racial hierarchy, evolve and change as…
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The United States imprisons a larger percentage of its black population than South Africa did at the height of apartheid. In Washington,…
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Many offenders are tracked for prison at early ages, labeled as criminals in their teen years, and then shuttled from their decrepit,…
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If we continue to tell ourselves the popular myths about racial progress or, worse yet, if we say to ourselves that the…
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A new race-neutral language was developed for appealing to old racist sentiments, a language accompanied by a political movement that succeeded in…
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Today there are more African-Americans under correctional control — in prison or jail, on probation or parole — than were enslaved in…
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No other country in the world imprisons so many of its racial or ethnic minorities. The United States imprisons a larger percentage…
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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If you say, 'I'm going to cut this song because I know the teenagers are going to love it,' well, then you're…
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Sharing our stories can also be a means of healing. Grief and loss may isolate us, and anger may alienate us. Shared…
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Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in…
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I'm very blessed and I don't take anything for granted. I think if you alienate people and just focus on your work…
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I do not conceive that power is given to the President and Senate to dismember the empire, or to alienate any great,…
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I had discovered long ago the first lesson of political courage: to think anew. I had then learned the second: to be…
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But I think I see what these guys' problem is. You know... aside from the lack of a spine and the latent…
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Now, if there were an Olympics for misleading, mismanaging and misappropriating then this administration would take the gold, world-records for violations of…
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Abortion is a hard thing for Hollywood to deal with because it is so controversial and you don't want to alienate half…
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