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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 first reason for the preponderant influence of those Evangelicals who define themselves as advocates of Religious Right theological and political ideologies…
— Tony Campolo
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Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies…
— Albert Camus
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Ideologies aren't all that important. What's important is psychology.
— James Carville
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Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of…
— B R Ambedkar
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One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most wars, however,…
— Thomas Sowell
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There are no more ideologies in the authentic sense of false consciousness, only advertisements for the world through its duplication and the…
— Theodor Adorno
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The giving up of personality traits, well-established patterns of behavior, ideologies, and even whole life styles...these are major forms of giving up…
— M. Scott Peck
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Aggression is inherently destructive of relationships. People and ideologies are pitted against each other, believing that in order to survive, they must…
— Margaret J. Wheatley
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If the great story of the last century was the conflict among various political ideologies-communism, fascism and democracy-then the great narrative of…
— Cynthia Tucker
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No theory ever agrees with all the facts in its domain, yet it is not always the theory that is to blame.…
— Paul Feyerabend
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We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.
— David Foster Wallace
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The majority of humankind does not accept this system, despite claims of worldwide support. Even with Russia's ratification, 75% of the world's…
— Andrey Illarionov
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