Michelle Alexander’s book The New Jim Crow reveals how the War on drugs and the current legal system in the United States has been designed as a new caste system: mass incarceration. The current system of mass incarceration in the US mirrors earlier systems of racialized social control through racial segregation, political origin, and how race is defined in America. Mass incarceration and previous caste systems like Jim Crow have historical parallels with each other. Politically mass incarceration and jim crow were created by white elites to exploit poor and working class whites anger and racial bias for political and economic gain. Jim Crow used segregation laws were created to defect anger and opposition from white elites to african
