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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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Anybody who has had the pleasure of reading an article about themselves in the press knows that, on the whole, there is…
— Jo Brand
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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…
— Michelle Alexander
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The current political tension is very serious. We have not yet ruled out a boycott of the election.
— Abhisit Vejjajiva
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Our current political system ensures not that the worst will get on top - though they often do - but that the…
— Paul Jacob
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There is no such thing as being non-political. Just by making a decision to stay out of politics you are making the…
— Joan Kirner
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I am convinced that whenever we exaggerate or demonize, oversimplify or overstate our case, we lose. Whenever we dumb down the political…
— Barack Obama
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I have never voted. Like most people I am utterly disenchanted by politics. Like most people I regard politicians as frauds and…
— Russell Brand
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The political topicality of my October paintings means almost nothing to me, but in many reviews it is the first or only…
— Gerhard Richter
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There'll be a growing disparity between economics and politics. An economy that grows so rapidly is intractably global. On the other hand,…
— Walter Wriston
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While mainstream media is led by profit, ratings and popularist culture and filtered by the current political climate, Alternative Media is lead…
— Ben Edwards
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With that radio I was always swimming with the current political streams in the West. I was never stranded.
— Lennart Meri
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If you think the system - not you - but if your viewers think that the current political system is working well…
— Hamilton Jordan
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