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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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All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is…
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This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at all, by…
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The object of the state is always the same: to limit the individual, to tame him, to subordinate him, to subjugate him.
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It would be extremely naive to expect the dominant classes to develop a type of education that would enable subordinate classes to…
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The development doctrines are doing much harm on both sides of the Atlantic, especially among intelligent mechanics, and a class of young…
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If you've experienced having control, you don't want to be moved to a subordinate position, if you have your druthers.
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What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a…
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We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is…
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The research worker, in his efforts to express the fundamental laws of Nature in mathematical form, should strive mainly for mathematical beauty.…
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