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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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To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
— Martha Beck
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I see myself as sexy. If you are comfortable with it, it can be very classy and appealing.
— Aaliyah
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Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.
— William J. Brennan
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A world without newspapers or a world where the newspapers are purely electronic and you read them on a screen is not…
— Bill Bryson
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I'll declare my own interest right here at the start and admit that, like the vast majority of people, I find youthful…
— Julie Burchill
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It must be said that Brighton, unlike London, makes driving seem very appealing. Instead of glowering faces and angry horns on all…
— Julie Burchill
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No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.
— Samuel Butler
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But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What's appealing is that you…
— Jane Campion
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We have eyes, and we're looking at stuff all the time, all day long. And I just think that whatever our eyes…
— Eric Carle
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I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art…
— Camille Claudel
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I get asked a lot about getting into politics. I say, 'Take a look at politics. You tell me what seems appealing…
— George Clooney
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Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain…
— Maya Angelou
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