"Nine southern states adopted vagrancy laws, which essentially……" — Michelle Alexander
"Nine southern states adopted vagrancy laws, which essentially made it a criminal offense not to work and were applied selectively to blacks."
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39 Quotes by Michelle Alexander
Michelle Alexander has 39 quotes on this site.
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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…
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The system functioned relatively automatically, and the prevailing system of racial meanings, identities, and ideologies already seemed natural. Ninety percent…
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Arguably the most important parallel between mass incarceration and Jim Crow is that both have served to define the meaning…
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Like Jim Crow (and slavery), mass incarceration operates as a tightly networked system of laws, policies, customs, and institutions that…
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The rules and reasons the political system employs to enforce status relations of any kind, including racial hierarchy, evolve and…
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The United States imprisons a larger percentage of its black population than South Africa did at the height of apartheid.…
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Many offenders are tracked for prison at early ages, labeled as criminals in their teen years, and then shuttled from…
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If we continue to tell ourselves the popular myths about racial progress or, worse yet, if we say to ourselves…
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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…
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Today there are more African-Americans under correctional control — in prison or jail, on probation or parole — than were…
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No other country in the world imprisons so many of its racial or ethnic minorities. The United States imprisons a…
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted…
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The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.
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The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the…
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I'm not Ted Nugent. My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature. I…
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In college, I think I probably positioned myself as an aspiring writer, meaning I dressed sort of extravagantly and adopted…
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I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught…
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a…
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I would not be a good mother. I mean, I love being an aunt to my niece and nephew. And…
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The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and…
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this last establishment will probably be within a mile of Charlottesville, and four from Monticello, if the system should be…
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