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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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South Africa does not have a poverty problem. Poverty is a result of denialism of the way corruption taxes poor people, the…
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I feel we are so blessed to live in a country where we enjoy so many rights that other countries cannot even…
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What about our refusal to look squarely at the degradation of the planet we inhabit? In the last election cycle many candidates…
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We have avoided in recent years talking openly and honestly about race out of fear that it will alienate and polarize. In…
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If we pray only because we want answers, we will become irritated and angry with God. We receive an answer every time…
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Our lack of intimacy is due to our refusal to unplug and shut off communication from all others so we can be…
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Human beings can be redeemed. Empires cannot. Our refusal to face the truth about empire, our refusal to defy the multitudinous crimes…
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The decision to attack the entire nation [of Yugoslavia] has been counterproductive, and our destruction of civilian life has now become senseless…
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The slavery of identity comes from our refusal to face ourselves. So we must begin the exploration to self-awareness. Where do we…
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Re-vision – the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction…
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The sorrow of God lies in our fear of Him, our fear of life, and our fear of ourselves. He anguishes over…
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It is our destiny to live with the wrong as well as the right kind of citizens, and to learn from them,…
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