New Jim Crow Chapter Summary

In chapter three of the New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander, Alexander starts off the chapter with two different stories of two African-American parents who were wrongly arrested during a drug bust. She then goes by saying the arrests ruined their families and career. Alexander points out how society would react if these were white individuals being charged and losing their families and emphasising how outraged they would be because of how unjust the law enforcement system. She then goes on regarding the war on drugs and how African and Latino American sare 80%-90% more likely to be in jail for drug-related crimes while white Americans are not, although their percentages in drug bust have increased. In this chapter, Alexander attempts to go through how and why American societies are unconcerned when it comes to the individuals who are getting negatively affected by the War on Drugs. Alexander also attempts to argue that the War on Drugs is racially biased and how individuals are still becoming victims of racial …show more content…
Her first case regards statistics of drug use within different types of races. She points out in statistics how black individuals are the majority for drug use in prisons, while also demonstrating a different statistic that proves white Americans are more likely to try drugs compared to African and/or Latino Americans. So, Alexander therefore demonstrates that popular culture does a great job in misrepresenting the reality of people using drugs and criminality within different American individuals. She also goes to explain how it's easy for other individuals and society to easily forget about black and brown individuals since they're typically stereotyped about using drugs, meanwhile there are others who find this extremely racist and