Redlinning, bad mortages, racial steering and failed school policies led to a “northern version of Jim Crow”( 1). Because she uses the idea of Jim Crow, Moore directly links intentional south segregation to the north, generally associated with the idea of freedom. The very idea of Jim Crow conveys a strict and intentional segregation between blacks and whites through passed laws. Moore is arguing that institutions within Chicago used means to segregate neighborhoods other than laws.…
Troops Review. In 1961, Leon Litwack set out to challenge the common misperception that slavery was merely a southern phenomenon. While he made clear that he did not intend to downplay the uniquely brutal character of the slave system that was in place in many places in the south, he clearly illustrated northern reluctance in doing away with the institution. Written during a time when the nation faced a movement that brought national and international attention to the gap between U.S. ideals of freedom and equality and the realities of Jim Crow style-racism, Litwack’s book directed the attention toward a little acknowledged fact: the long tradition of racial prejudice and oppression outside the South.…
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, Michelle. “The New Jim Crow.” The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. 178-220. New York, NY: The New Press, 2011. Print.…
During 1896-1964 The Jim crow law was in effect. The Jim crow law was a law that would effectively separate or segregate white people form the African American people so anyone that was not white could not enter certain places like bathrooms and restaurants without being jailed or beaten .…
Jim crow was the practice of segregating African Amercians. This book was very important in the 1960’s during the civil rights movement. Going more in depth into Jim Crow Laws, they were discrimination and coercement laws. They controlled the south for three quarters of a century. The laws affected many aspects of everyday life.…
Introduction Michelle Alexander is a law professor at Ohio State University, civil rights advocate, and author of one of the best-selling book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. She focuses on the mass incarceration of black males and expresses that policies like the War on Drugs have enabled this tragic occurrence. Several undertakings done in our society have prevented black males from prospering and thriving off the resources we have that are relatively available to those who are Caucasian. We rather watch our black men rot in prison then allow them the chance to go to college and thrive off an alternative survival method. Discussion Alexander described that countless blue-collar industrial jobs were taken…
Introduction. Is Mass Incarceration anywhere close to being the Old Jim Crow? Michelle Alexander in her book The New Jim Crow argues that US criminal justice system targets African American through the War On Drugs and relates it to the Old Jim Crow. However, in response to her analogy, James Forman, Jr. believes this comparison diminishes the real harm the Old Jim Crow has left in history. In addition, Forman, Jr. argues The New Jim Crow analogy is ignoring violence, obscuring class and diminishing history of The Old Jim Crow and uses convincing evidence to support his point of view.…
A major theme in the book is obviously inequality in the legal system and the ways that laws are formulated. In The New Jim Crow, there was a specific agenda to keep power away from African Americans with the author stating they’ve “gone from plantation to penitentiaries” (Alexander, 2011, p. 111). Like Feminism theory explains there are structural differences, in the book’s case, the strict laws and target of those severe penalties. These laws were created with the intent of hurting groups that historically have little access to power and limited ability to defend themselves against such a sophisticated and intimidating legal system. The label of criminal is one that was impossible to disown.…
I was excited to begin this week’s reading of the book, The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander. Many people have told me about the book but I had never gotten free time to read it. I was excited about it because of the thesis of the book which states that the system of mass incarceration that is based on the war on drugs is strategically created to control blacks in America. The prison system is used to marginalize blacks economically, politically, and socially, just like in the Jim Crow era where there existed laws that discriminated against African Americans.…
The new Jim Crow is another way of describing mass incarceration of minorities, especially, young, African American, males, from poor areas. Majority of the people in prison are there for minor drug offense because of mandatory sentencing and the three strike law. The new Jim Crow also describes the right that are taken away from people who are released from prison such as the right to vote, the right to be on a jury, limit jobs and housing. The old Jim crow, has a long history in the United States, which was implemented in the 1890’s mostly in the South. This Jim Crow made segregation legal through Supreme Court cases and separate but equal.…
Racism is a very sensitive subject to discuss. So, why it is that racism still exists today in our very own home, the United States of America, the country of freedom and dreams? Racism is still alive and well because people have different views depending where they were raised. Both Thomas Jefferson 's Notes on the State of Virginia and Michelle Alexander 's book, The New Jim Crow present prime examples of the portrayal of Black American, as seen from the perspective of both White and Black Americans, throughout the late 1700s and into the present.…
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.…
During 1986 Congress passed the Anti-Drug Abuse Act which created lengthy mandatory minimum sentences for low-level drug dealing and small possession of crack cocaine. The first sentence for a drug offense is five to ten years. The second offense equates to ten to fifteen years in prison. After that, if a person is caught dealing or with drugs, a life imprisonment is mandatory for the individual. Some may argue the need for the three strike system is invalid because individuals should not be committing the crime in the first place.…
Jim Crow laws were the only way whites felt protected with their former status from slave…