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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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There comes not seldom a crisis in the life of men, of nations, and of worlds, when the old forms seem ready…
— Benjamin N. Cardozo
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A sapling must be hedged about for protection, but when it becomes a tree, a hedge would be a hindrance. So there…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Once you're labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination - employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial…
— Michelle Alexander
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No more gods, no more faith, no more timid holding back. Let us blast out of our old forms, our ignorance, our…
— Max More
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New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern…
— Jackson Pollock
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Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
— Herbert Spencer
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You reach a moment in life when, among the people you have known, the dead outnumber the living. And the mind refuses…
— Italo Calvino
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Dance today is clearly in an unsettled state. Old forms and traditions are being given up. New ones are arising to take…
— Margaret H'Doubler
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