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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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Experience shows that great enterprises seldom end with a tidy and satisfactory flourish. Together, we are doing our best to re-establish peace…
— Queen Elizabeth II
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I am the leader of one country which has two alphabets, three languages, four religions, five nationalities, six republics, surrounded by seven…
— Josip Broz Tito
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Here is the full list of the banned words I used: active homosexual; career women; Third World; blacks; Asians; Australasia; Bangalore; primitive…
— Rod Liddle
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Canadians tend to be a bit more religious than most Europeans - though not more than the Poles or Ukrainians. Most important,…
— Timothy Garton Ash
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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…
— Michelle Alexander
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The ultimate goal of radical politics is gradually to displace the limit of social exclusions, empowering the excluded agents (sexual and ethnic…
— Slavoj Žižek
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Iran's continued, widespread persecution of ethnic minorities, human rights defenders and political prisoners is a disgrace and stands as a shameful indictment…
— William Hague
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Low-income people, racial or ethnic minorities, pregnant women, seniors, people with special needs, people in rural areas - they all have a…
— Bernie Sanders
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There are a host of ethnic minorities in China, but they often have a weak sense of identity and are relatively small…
— Martin Jacques
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If you are white, racism is too easily ignored and forgiven, regarded as of burning concern only to the ethnic minorities, and…
— Martin Jacques
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Our leaders increasingly see fit to lecture the ethnic minorities on the need to integrate, including of course the need to speak…
— Martin Jacques
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