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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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Truth as a cultural ideal has functioned as an opiate, perhaps the only serious opiate of the modern world. Karl Marx said…
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I have found life highly competitive. I accept it. It is useless, merely a hypocritical humbug, to sincerely wish your opponent 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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King Arthur and his armored goons of the Round Table functioned as the Politburo of a slave state: Camelot. Of all who…
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This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband…
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Religious ideas such as the idea of God have functioned as regulative ideals for us to aspire after: we too could become…
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I am persuaded, from all the facts that have come to me, that it would have been possible, if we had functioned…
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Political scientists almost everywhere have promoted the expansion of government power. They have functioned as the clergy of oppression.
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