At The Dark End Of The Street Analysis

While reading both books At The Dark End of The Street by Danielle L. McGuire and The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration by Michelle Alexander both have a straight forward approach on the view of stigma and constant racial caste systems placed on African Americans. The books share many comparable factors because the condition based on the fact that African Americans “civil” state never changes. The book At The Dark End of The Street and The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration the emphasis on racial identity comes to play the idea for proper justice of a black man or woman does not exist. McGuire wrote the book in 2007 and Alexander wrote hers in 2012,but regardless of the time gap between the years, the issues of racial injustice seem identical historical and current.
To emphasis the meaning of racial injustice there is no polite way to approach it but the African American being punished for and by the white persons doing. By virtue of reading both books there was an expected a major juxtaposition between the two however there seem to be more like factors than dissimilar. It seems throughout both books racial identity for African Americans groups and the victimization between the law enforcement and being dominated by white supremacy. Removing the significant focus on sexual violence that …show more content…
A Dark end of The Street this is highlighted in chapter 7, through the bellicose county Sherriff Jim Clark who supported white supremacy to the fullest and wore a never integrate button readers can grasp the lack of racial acceptance among African-Americans for example we can see the active police brutality through the Alabama black belt also a poor area. A woman Amelia Boynton was shoved out on to the street just because she wanted to go to the registrar’s office more importantly she was a prominent member of the black she was then arrested for "criminal