The novel The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander a compelling guide through the American justice system. The novel gives its readers insight that since the Jim Crows and Obamas Presidency the “colorblindness” within the United States has revolutionized the American society in ways unimaginable, especially in the Wars on Drugs. The author takes her readers past times in 1840’s, around the time of the Jim Crows to about modern day dealing with how society takes and outlook on all rascal standpoint and how Americas have come accustomed to this “blindness” in their society. The memoir Orange is the New Black by Piper Kerman; she takes her readers through a journey in her life regarding her experience
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However, a common ground they share lies on the grounds of the American Penal system, but the ways that Kerman and Alexander show this display the strength of one author compared the other. In Orange is the New Black, Kerman told her reads about the struggles that she went through as women in the American Penal system and she told audience about the friendships and bonds and explained the system. Where Kerman lacked in her story was educating the readers more about the American justice system, she told her readers the basics but it wasn’t something that you wouldn’t see or hear about by watching True TV. Per contra, Alexander strived with the same central theme of the American Justice system. What Alexander did that Kerman didn’t was she gave her readers more information to feed off of. Alexander lavished her readers look at statistical numbers analyzing what the justice system has become over the years of the Jim Crow and now with Obamas presidency. Both books also gave a look into the Wars on Drugs in America the only difference was the point of views that each author showed their audience. Kerman committed a drug offence herself, regarding the reason to her being in prison, and she showed her readers that prison “isn’t as bad as it seems” speaking nonchalantly in a way that Kerman was showing the readers that she grew in prison from the 13 months that she stayed there, she learned more from the girls than one could even begin to imagine, bring her light/heart-warming tone within her novel. Alexander took a completely different twist with the subject of drugs in her novel. Her intendment in writing her book was to show that African Americans and Caucasians deal with the justice system differently than most would think and that’s the “colorblindness” that she talks about. Alexander made the penal system sound terrible, her blunt tone gave
However, a common ground they share lies on the grounds of the American Penal system, but the ways that Kerman and Alexander show this display the strength of one author compared the other. In Orange is the New Black, Kerman told her reads about the struggles that she went through as women in the American Penal system and she told audience about the friendships and bonds and explained the system. Where Kerman lacked in her story was educating the readers more about the American justice system, she told her readers the basics but it wasn’t something that you wouldn’t see or hear about by watching True TV. Per contra, Alexander strived with the same central theme of the American Justice system. What Alexander did that Kerman didn’t was she gave her readers more information to feed off of. Alexander lavished her readers look at statistical numbers analyzing what the justice system has become over the years of the Jim Crow and now with Obamas presidency. Both books also gave a look into the Wars on Drugs in America the only difference was the point of views that each author showed their audience. Kerman committed a drug offence herself, regarding the reason to her being in prison, and she showed her readers that prison “isn’t as bad as it seems” speaking nonchalantly in a way that Kerman was showing the readers that she grew in prison from the 13 months that she stayed there, she learned more from the girls than one could even begin to imagine, bring her light/heart-warming tone within her novel. Alexander took a completely different twist with the subject of drugs in her novel. Her intendment in writing her book was to show that African Americans and Caucasians deal with the justice system differently than most would think and that’s the “colorblindness” that she talks about. Alexander made the penal system sound terrible, her blunt tone gave