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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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If you tell an ugly woman that she is beautiful, you offer her the great homage of corrupting the concept of beauty.
— Ayn Rand
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When you offer a vibration, the Universal forces are working in concert with each other in order to satisfy you. You really…
— Esther Hicks
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Teach people to play new chess, right away. Why do you offer them a black and white television set, when there is…
— Bobby Fischer
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And that's the soulful thing about playing: you offer something to somebody. You don't know if they'll like it, but you offer…
— Wynton Marsalis
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It seems to me like the Internet allows you to break that structure a little bit. You know, here's your CD that's…
— Liz Phair
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Your calling is to bless lives. . . . Just the way you smile or the way you offer to help someone…
— Henry B. Eyring
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You offer a sincere compliment on a great mustache and suddenly she's not your friend.
— Marty Feldman
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I have touched with a sense of art some people-they felt the love and the life. Can you offer me anything to…
— Mary Cassatt
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If you sit down with me, I guarantee I will accept any terms you offer for a contract.
— David O. Selznick
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The way I work is not the way that you work, and the whole point of any creative act is that. What…
— Charlie Kaufman
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Network selectively. Nothing says "business newbie" like shotgun networking. "You never know when someone might say yes" is marketing for dummies. Take…
— Steve Pavlina
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The more you use soul communication, the higher level of communication you receive. The more you offer service, the higher your frequency…
— Zhi Gang Sha
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