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A slew of federal civil rights legislation protecting the newly freed slaves was passed during the relatively brief but extraordinary period of black advancement known…

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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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