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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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