The New Jim Crow: A Study
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This document summarizes key points from Michelle Alexander's book "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness". It notes that incarceration rates in the U.S. increased dramatically from 1980 to 2009, and that African Americans are incarcerated at six times the rate of whites. It then provides brief biographical information about Alexander and outlines some of the challenges and criticisms to her argument that the U.S. criminal justice system functions as a "new Jim Crow" system of racial control similar to the old Jim Crow laws.
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The New Jim Crow
Mass Incarceration in the
Age of Colorblindness
MICHELLE ALEXANDER
NEW YORK
LONDON
© 2010 by Michelle Alexander j For Nicole, Jonathan, and Corinne
All rights reserved.
No part of this book may be reproduced, in any form,
without written permission from the publisher.
Request for permission to reproduce selections from this book should be mailed to:
Permissions Department, The New Press, 38 Greene Street, NewYork, NY 10013.
Published in the United States by The New Press, NewYork, 2010
Distributed by Perseus Distribution
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Alexander, Michelle.
The new Jim Crow : mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness 1 Michelle Alexander.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-59558-103-7 (hc. : alk. paper) 1. Criminal justice, Administration of—
United States. 2. African American prisoners—United States. 3. Race discrimination—
United States. 4. United States—Race relations. I. Title.
HV9950.A437 2010
364.973—dc22 2009022519
The NewPress was established in 1990 as a not-for-profit alternative to the large,
commerical publishing houses currently dominating the book publishing industry.
The New Press operates in the public interest rather than for private gain, and
is committed to publishing, in innovative ways, works of educational, cultural,
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4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3
Introduction
J arvious Cotton cannot vote. Like his father, grandfather, great-grandfather,
and great-great-grandfather, he has been denied the right to participate in
our electoral democracy. Cotton’s family tree tells the story of several gener
ations of black men who were born in the United States but who were de
nied the most basic freedom that democracy promises—the freedom to vote
for those who will make the rules and laws that govern one’s life. Cotton’s
great-great-grandfather could not vote as a slave. His great-grandfather was
beaten to death by the Ku Klux Klan for attempting to vote. His grandfather
was prevented from voting by Klan intimidation. His father was barred from
voting by poii taxes and literacy tests. Today, Jarvious Cotton cannot vote be-
cause he, like many black men in the United States, has been labeled a felon
and is currently on parole.1
Cotton’s story illustrates, in many respects, the old adage “The more things
change, the more they remain the same.” In each generation, new tactics
have been used for achieving the same goals—goals shared by the Founding
Fathers. DenyingAfrican Americans citizenship was deemed essential to the
formation of the original union. Hundreds of years later, America is still not
: an egalitarian democracy. The arguments and rationalizations that have been
trotted out in support of racial exclusion and discrimination in i ...
The New Jim Crow
The document is a sermon discussing racial injustice in the United States. It summarizes how slavery gave way to Jim Crow laws enforcing racial segregation. While civil rights reforms promised equality, mass incarceration has emerged as the new system of racial control. The war on drugs disproportionately targets African Americans, and the U.S. now imprisons more black people than were enslaved before the Civil War. The sermon calls Christians to work towards transforming institutions and achieving true justice and equality for all.
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- 1. Table 1 U.S. Census Bureau, Statistical Abstract of the United States:2012 Prison and Jail Rates Rate in 1980 Prison Jail 182,288 319,598 Rate in 2009 Prison Jail 760,400 1,524,513 Notes: African Americans are incarcerated six times more than Whites. African Americans make up about 1 million of the nearly 2 million plus incarcerated in America today.
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- 4. CHALLENGES 1. Michelle Alexander is paranoid concerning racism 2. Can Alexander actually prove that the incarceration system is the new Jim Crow? 3. Jim Crow is dead. 4. Did the idea of Jim Crow come into being when the settlers came to “America” and labeled the First Inhabitants “savages”? 5. Racism is gone. It’s 2013 (assumptions) 6. Are some laws/acts coded for a specific ethnicity or are the laws a warning for all? 7. Is the system (jails and prisons/laws) targeting African Americans more than other races?
- 5. HISTORICAL CHALLENGES 1. Racism in the beginning (Settlers and Native Americans) 2. Laws and Legislatures (Section I: Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. Section II:“Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.” ) 3. Law Enforcers 4. Old Jim Crow 5.Stereotypes 6. The Mindset of a people
- 6. CHALLENGES AND EXAMPLES These challenges range from racism, lawmakers, Jim Crow, stereotypes, and law enforcement. What are some examples of these problems? • Racism? • Law enforcement and law makers? • Jim Crow New or old? • Stereotypes? • Law enforcement? • Examples.
- 7. FACES OF OPPRESSION There are 5 faces of oppression but the three that I want to hit on which are more dominant in this case are powerlessness, cultural imperialism, and marginalization. These are the three that see tying to the listed issues more than anything. What are these and what do they mean? • Powerlessness- What is happening is that some people have power while some others do not. • Cultural imperialism- this involves taking the culture of the ruling class and establishing it at the norm. Haven’t we done this before? • Marginalization- This is the act of relegating or confronting a group of people to a lower social standing or outer limit or edge of society.
- 8. EXAMPLES OF FACES OF OPPRESSION? • Powerlessness. What I think of when I see this are the lower class black males who are being incarcerated at ridiculous rates, exposure to disrespectful treatment because of lowered status. Example, pulled over because of being stereotyped then you have searching the vehicle finding a little marijuana or something and boom jail time felony no rights, that is powerlessness to me. • Cultural Imperialism. This is where we establish culture of ruling class as a norm. Examples of this are things such as the Jefferson writing where it was made whites above all and African’s weren’t even considered people, cultural imperialism at its finest. Once a norm is established it is hard to change. • Marginalization. This happens when we put people at lower social standing. Examples, Government housing.
- 9. THE NEW JIM CROW: FACT OR FICTION? FACT: Throughout the different challenges such as racism, slavery, lawmakers and law enforcement throughout all of these stereotypes and all issues lead to one definition, oppression. We are making these people powerless, marginalizing them and using cultural imperialism to keep the white race at the top. We have to change this issue that way we can be true to our “by the people for the people” mentality that we were supposed to be founded on. What do you think?
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