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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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We've got a nation of people who have one eye looking out for the next speed camera, another looking for a speed…
— Paul Smith
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I think back to the day I drove Michelle and a newborn Malia home from the hospital nearly 13 years ago-crawling along,…
— Barack Obama
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As you warm the climate, you basically raise the speed limit on hurricanes
— Kerry Emanuel
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Everyone asks me 'how it feels to fly.' It feels like riding in a high powered automobile, minus bumping over the rough…
— Harriet Quimby
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Just because you put higher-octane gasoline in your car doesn't mean you can break the speed limit. The speed limit's still 65.
— Neil Sheehan
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At two-tenths the speed of light, dust and atoms might not do significant damage even in a voyage of 40 years, but…
— Isaac Asimov
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Speed Limit – A sign that tells you at what speed the car that's rapidly fading from view in your rearview mirror…
— Richard Turner
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It's very clear that there's a lot of double standards going on. Should there be a 30mph speed limit? Of course there…
— Jamie Oliver
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I never exceed the posted speed limit.
— Jason Priestley
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I do all of my good thinking at over 65 miles per hour. The speed limit is, luckily, the same speed as…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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In foreign countries such as Italy, the government puts strict-looking speed limit signs everywhere, but nobody ever sees them because light does…
— Dave Barry
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I don't need to break the speed limit. But if I'm not passing other vehicles on the interstate, I get a little…
— Jimmie Johnson
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