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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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I would like to see people more aware of where their food comes from. I would like to see small farmers empowered.…
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Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?
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To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation.
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Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the…
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It's been suggested that most women fail to write significantly because the female mind is viscerotonic, and occupied almost exclusively with the…
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Indeed; peace literature is almost exclusively read, though to good effect, by pacifists, while what is needed is the canvassing of those…
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For my victory over Capablanca I am indebted primarily to my superiority in the field of psychology. Capablanca played, relying almost exclusively…
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As humans, we are rarely anything more than children that have let the changes to the size and shape of our genitals…
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The absorption and organization of sunlight, the essence of life, is derived almost exclusively through plants. Since light is the driving force…
— Unknown Author
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Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books.…
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