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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 they are challenged.

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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…
The system functioned relatively automatically, and the prevailing system of racial meanings, identities, and ideologies already seemed natural. Ninety percent of those…
Arguably the most important parallel between mass incarceration and Jim Crow is that both have served to define the meaning and significance…
Like Jim Crow (and slavery), mass incarceration operates as a tightly networked system of laws, policies, customs, and institutions that operate collectively…
The rules and reasons the political system employs to enforce status relations of any kind, including racial hierarchy, evolve and change as…
The United States imprisons a larger percentage of its black population than South Africa did at the height of apartheid. In Washington,…
Many offenders are tracked for prison at early ages, labeled as criminals in their teen years, and then shuttled from their decrepit,…
If we continue to tell ourselves the popular myths about racial progress or, worse yet, if we say to ourselves that the…
A new race-neutral language was developed for appealing to old racist sentiments, a language accompanied by a political movement that succeeded in…
Today there are more African-Americans under correctional control — in prison or jail, on probation or parole — than were enslaved in…
No other country in the world imprisons so many of its racial or ethnic minorities. The United States imprisons a larger percentage…
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

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True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they… — Cleveland Abbe
He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them as signs.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
[To] explain the phenomena of the mineral kingdom ... systems are usually reduced to two classes, according as they refer to the… — John Playfair
Pity is like a knife, sometimes, and it may pierce one who employs it more shrewdly than the victim it would save. — Edwin Arlington Robinson
The whole language of nature informs us, that in animated beings there is something above our powers of investigation; something which employs,… — Humphry Davy
Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why… — Oscar Wilde
I have myself, for many years, made it a practice to read through the Bible once ever year.... My custom is, to… — John Quincy Adams
The mechanism she employs is much more powerful than ours, for all her levers move the human heart. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it. — Socrates
It violates right order whenever capital so employs the working or wage-earning classes as to divert business and economic activity entirely to… — Pope Pius XI
Production does not consist in things laboriously made, but in things serviceably consumable; and the question for the nation is not how… — John Ruskin

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