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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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I love cycling, running and swimming. In recent years I've competed regularly in triathlons, which means I don't find the physical side…
— Jenson Button
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Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and…
— Vince Cable
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We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as…
— John le Carre
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It is wrong, and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws that…
— William J. Clinton
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In the budget I will present to you, we will try to do more to speed the deportation of illegal aliens who…
— William J. Clinton
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It is frightening that in recent years such an increase has occurred in acts of terrorism, which have even reached peaceful countries…
— Alva Myrdal
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In recent years, many seem to have spent their lives protesting. Perhaps they have felt to do this because they have felt…
— James E. Faust
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I think that consciousness has always been the most important topic in the philosophy of mind, and one of the most important…
— David Chalmers
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I think that the formation of [DNA's] structure by Watson and Crick may turn out to be the greatest developments in the…
— Linus Pauling
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A wise man had said that your Christian life is like a three-legged stool. The legs are doctrine, experience and practice, which…
— J I Packer
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I don't remember any sibling rivalry growing up, because by the time I was really conscious, Tom was going away to college.…
— David Hyde Pierce
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I think this country would be much better off if we did not have capital punishment.... We cannot ignore the fact that…
— John Paul Stevens
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