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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 didnt come out with any energy. We know were not good enough to let the game come to us. We have…
— Chris Bosh
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We didnt come all this way for no two seats when all of us is tired,
— Fannie Lou Hamer
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They appear to have had a higher voter turnout in Iraq than we did in our recent federal elections, and we didnt…
— Conrad Burns
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Theres no such thing as Flickr Pro because today, with cameras as pervasive as they are, theres no such thing, really, as…
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We didnt create dishes. We create preparations to create many dishes.
— Ferran Adria
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At home we didnt talk about religion. So gradually the question faded away by itself and disappeared from the agenda. When I…
— Sergei Prokofiev
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We speculated what it was like before we got language skills. When we humans had our first thought, most likely we didnt…
— Jane Wagner
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We didnt realize we were making memories, we just knew we were having fun.
— Orebela Gbenga
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Tell me its not really over.. Tell me we didnt just say goodbye.. Tell me we can begin again.. Tell me were…
— Nushra
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I would love to be one of those people whos all: we loved, thank you, you enhanced my life, now go, prosper,…
— Superman
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Its my birthday today :D,happy and blessed that's wat I feel right now,greetings and gifts are good but the most wonderful is…
— Nix
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Girl- I'm depressed..........Society- your over reacting........Girl- I cut myself.........Society- its for attention.....Girl kills herself......Society- we didnt see the signs................ YEAH NO ONE…
— Fading_scars
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