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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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The battle against good and evil is raging now! Look at your television programming and movie advertisements presenting the occult…the demonic…the satanic…the…
— John Hagee
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Holiness provokes hatred. The greater the holiness, the greater the human hostility toward it. It seems insane. No man was ever more…
— R C Sproul
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The masculine imagination lives in a state of perpetual revolt against the limitations of human life. In theological terms, one might say…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Those who closely watched the campaign should not be surprised by Obama's hostility toward Israel, given his relations with pro-Palestinian, virulent critics…
— David Limbaugh
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I believe that prayer in public schools should be voluntary. It is difficult for me to see how religious exercises can be…
— Gerald R. Ford
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The War on Drugs, cloaked in race-neutral language, offered whites opposed to racial reform a unique opportunity to express their hostility toward…
— Michelle Alexander
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There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people,…
— Charles Kuralt
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The biblical texts that we Christians have used for centuries to justify our hostility toward the Jews need to be banished forever…
— John Shelby Spong
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Much that was called religion has carried an unconscious attitude of hostility toward life. True religion must teach that life is filled…
— Frank Herbert
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Hostility toward Iran may not be the silliest of all American foreign policies - that would probably be the continuing trade embargo…
— Stephen Kinzer
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Education...beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men --the balance wheel of the social machinery...It…
— Horace Mann
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