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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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The future of cinematography belongs to a new race of young solitaries who will shoot films by putting their last penny into… — Robert Bresson
America faces a new race that has awakened. — E. Franklin Frazier
A new race-neutral language was developed for appealing to old racist sentiments, a language accompanied by a political movement that succeeded in… — Michelle Alexander
If men were to be destroyed and the books they have written were to be transmitted to a new race of creatures,… — Henry David Thoreau
A new space race has begun, and most Americans are not even aware of it. This race is not [about] political prestige… — Ben Bova
A new space race has begun, and most Americans are not even aware of it. This race is not about political prestige… — Ben Bova
Formation of a new race takes place when, over several generations, individuals in one group reproduce more frequently among themselves than they… — J. Philippe Rushton
The Yuppies are not defectors from revolt, they are a new race, assured, amnestied, exculpated, moving with ease in the world of… — Jean Baudrillard
Am I a Spaceman? Do I belong to a new race on earth, bred by men from outer space in embraces with… — Wilhelm Reich
I felt the strange brooding lonely presence of Nature fostering a new race, a new age, and as part of it, a… — Lawren Harris
There was once a caustic comment from someone suggesting I was breeding a new race. Fans from different countries have married, amazing… — Terry Pratchett
When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation… — Margaret Sanger

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