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The fate of millions of people—indeed the future of the black community itself—may depend on the willingness of those who care about racial justice to…

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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 death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive - perhaps for some purpose which we ought… — Mignon McLaughlin
Re examine all you have been told in school and in church Or in any book, dismiss what insults your own soul… — Walt Whitman
If some want to misuse the generosity of our nation, and re-examine what was previously examined, they should know the fire of… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
This is what you should do: love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks,… — Walt Whitman
My work is about giving voice to the unheard, and reiterating the voice of the heard in such a way that you… — Anna Deavere Smith
Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us. — Buchi Emecheta
Disasters are usually a good time to re-examine what we've done so far, what mistakes we've made, and what improvements should come… — Dan Ariely
I believe the government of the United States should re-examine its policies in the Middle East and adopt a more balanced stance… — Al-Waleed bin Talal
I can't re-examine work I did in the past with pride. — Daniel Day-Lewis
Let's take a timeout. Let's allow investors the opportunity in a period of market calm to re-examine what's happened and to deploy… — Richard Grasso
Although humankind inherently "desires to know", if open access to, and unlimited development of, knowledge henceforth puts us all in clear danger… — Bill Joy
Globalization means we have to re-examine some of our ideas, and look at ideas from other countries, from other cultures, and open… — Herbie Hancock

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