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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 had a lot of growing and a lot of denying of self to do. I am not easily won over, but…
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They say that childhood forms us, that those early influences are the key to everything. Is the peace of the soul so…
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Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny.
— Trent Lott
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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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Cultivate your gardenÂ… Do not depend upon teachers to educate you Â… follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself,…
— Will Durant
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That feeling of finishedness does not come all at once, and it is not easily won, but I think once you get…
— John Green
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Darling girl, blinded by foolish thoughts of love. How to tell her that the hearts of men were not so easily won.…
— Kate Morton
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nobody can save you but yourself and you’re worth saving. it’s a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning…
— Charles Bukowski
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Happiness must be shared. Selfishness it its enemy; to make another happy is to be happy one's self. It is quiet, most…
— Unknown Author
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