The New Jim Crow was a very interesting point of view. In the book Michelle Alexander expresses to us her opinion that the war on drugs is the way to legally discriminate against African Americans and people of color. In the book she encourages us, as United States Citizens to discuss the criminal justice system and how it is not how it should be. In chapter one we are introduced on how the discrimination has made come back according to Michelle Alexander. She did acknowledge that some African…
still lives in our society and it supports the racial caste system. In Michelle Alexander’s book; The New Jim Crow, she points out how enforcement of drug laws has negatively affected the black population. After Practicing slavery and Jim crow, the American system now uses the criminal justice system to marginalized blacks. Additionally, James Forman Jr provides different solutions to the issue of mass incarceration. Michelle Alexander talks about how the system continuously control the lives of African…
In Michelle Alexanders “The New Jim Crow” she discusses the problem the black community faces of not having fathers in kids’ lives. To start off she brings up a speech that President Barrack Obamas gave at the Apostolic Church of God in Chicago. Obama brings up the fact that in the African American culture there are way too many fathers missing from their families’ lives and how they are not taking over their responsibilities. Obama is asking for everyone to realize that the problem is real and is…
Professor Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow, writes that a racial caste system existing in America reflect the Jim Crow laws that were "separate but equal" from the time of the Civil War until the passage of the Civil Rights Acts in the mid 1960's and which continue today. She is a graduate from Stanford Law School and Vanderbilt University and clerked for Justice Harry A. Blackmun on the United States Supreme Court and for Chief Judge Abner Mikva on the United States Court of Appeals…
myself included, to the high ideals set by our founding government. Americans have the responsibility to uphold the human rights to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness through historical understanding and empathy as described in Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow as well as self-reflection that inspires personal change in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist to challenge the American society to achieve its values of social equality. While this argument specifically focuses on American…
Michelle Alexander in her book "The New Jim Crow" argues that Mass Incarceration has regenerated laws similar to Jim Crow; Alexander believes these caste systems such as Jim Crow and slavery are similar to the existing system of mass incarceration. In addition, Alexander alleges the U.S. criminal justice system laws undividedly target African Americans through the War on Drugs and racial control. In comparing mass incarceration with Jim Crow, Alexander points to compelling parallels regarding political…
The New Jim Crow, written by an expert and 10 years experiences in civil liberties Michelle Alexander. I agree that people who break the law are criminals and should be punished. Yet what I see is an issue of racial injustice being depicted by discriminatory factors including social class. It is preposterous to call the criminal justice system racist in many ways, as if you have this superior entitled opinion. When Barack Obama became the first African american president, it seems safe to say that…
The social construct of respectability in contemporary America is one that is focused on the increased value of time. As long-term growth and achievement take a back seat to short-term returns in the new capitalism, time becomes more valuable. Consequently, organizations have adapted and stability for workers has diminished. Relationships between employees and the companies that employ them have shifted from one that is based on mutual respect through mutual dependency to one in which past experiences…
Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow discusses ways in which the prison system of the United states has become a cycle for many prisoners instead of a method for them to repent and regret their crimes while James Baldwin’s A Talk to Teachers features the first-hand experience of the author himself dealing with racism in the education system. Both authors, who are black Americans discuss racism in times where it is thought that racism is no longer present. Many people might think of racism and think…
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander discusses ways the way the American prison system has become a cycle for many prisoners instead of a system for them to regret their criminal actions while A Talk to Teacher by James Baldwin features his own first-hand experiences with racism within the American education system. Both authors, who are black Americans, discuss racial microaggressions in times where racism is thought to be nonexistent. When people think of racism, they generally think of times…