Alexander The Lockdown Analysis

1. The historical argument that Alexander is making in “The Rebirth of Caste” is that racial social control in the form of slavery still exists in the United States. Slavery has not died. She describes the racial caste system is coming back again in our world in uncertain style. The evidence and support she provides in “The Rebirth of Caste” are about the caste system in the form of slavery has been reborn in a new structure. For example, Alexander mentions in the novel, “The emergence of each new system of control may seem sudden, but history shows that the seeds are planted long before each new institution begins to grow” (22). This quote shows how Alexander is making an argument that the new racial caste system may seem much unexpected to …show more content…
She discusses the main point of how people judgement to drug offenses is becoming very common and is one of the single most important reason of the destructive shattering in incarceration in the United States. Therefore, she also says they are many innocent in the world who had been targeted because of drugs. To support her argument the evidence she provided as an example of how people were being stopped at road for drugs checkup, “Accordingly, every year, tens of thousands of motorists find themselves stopped on the side of the road, fielding questions about imaginary drug activity, and then succumbing to a request for their vehicle to be searched—sometimes torn apart in the search of drug” (71). This quote by Alexander shows that every year, there are way too many people who has been stopped by the police officer just to ask questions and do an investigation for drug activities that has been happening. However, most of them who have been stopped seems to find no illegal drugs, they have been proved innocent. This shows how many innocent people have been the victim of it even though they have done nothing related to