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Rhetorical Analysis of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration Michelle Alexander is an African American civil rights activist, Ohio state law professor, and legality lawyer, who has written the famous novel, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness in 2010 which emphasizes the ongoing civil rights issues being had within African American communities and law enforcement. Michelle uses several rhetorical devices within the chapter “The Rebirth of Caste” to provide…

Jim Crow Laws have affected the lives of many African Americans through segregation from the 1800’s to the 1960’s. Jim Crow consists of various laws that separate people based on the color of their skin. The punishments for not following Jim Crow Laws would be unfair and torturous. Racism became apparent, in which, drove many people the courage to fight for freedom and their rights. Jim Crow laws eventually was eliminated, though, racism still continued to linger. Moreover, an individual’s…

may choose to do now, and the way some may have treated others beforehand, we may now have found just inhumane and wrong. A prime example of this would be what we refer to as Jim Crow Laws. These laws were a set of very strict anti-black laws that affected many African Americans between the 1800s to the 1960s. Jim Crow laws were very discriminatory towards African Americans in the 1800s-1960s and had a huge impact on education, voting, and what our society…

accepted discrimination and thought of it as a way of life, but not Atticus Finch. Jim Crow Laws attempted to keep African American people separate from white people as well as keep things fair, but that does not stop the jury from discriminating against Tom Robinson, along with maintaining their social hierarchy. The book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee takes place in the 1930s, a time when people encouraged Jim Crow Laws. Although some people may have thought that Tom did not commit the…

Racial Segregation (Jim Crow Laws ) was the practice of colored and whites to be separated from ones skin color. This occurred in the 1950’s and different examples of segregation included waiting rooms, schools, and churches. Jim Crow Laws led to segregation that divided African Americans and whites, which led to protesters making a change, but many killed and locked in prison. Racial segregation and Jim Crow laws enforced African americans and whites to seperate. But African Americans hated…

Jim Crow Laws were government-enforced racial segregation laws that existed with the purpose of dehumanizing, alienating and discriminating black people and other people of color. Jim Crow Laws were formed from 1876 to 1965, and existed on the premise of a “separate but equal” status for black people and white people, although they did not carry this idea out, and were violently racist. The name “Jim Crow” comes from a blackface minstrel show made in 1830, and became a derogatory term for…

Tenzin Namdul HIU 310 Professor Andrew Robertson Jim Crow, what is it? Or who is it? Jim Crow may sound like a person’s name but it is the racial law that segregated among the blacks and whites and it arose after Reconstruction that ended in 1877 and continued until the mid 1960s. Jim Crow laws were primarily seen in southern and border states. The African Americans were always looked down upon as second class citizens. The whites thought that they were superior to blacks in all ways and even…

In The New Jim Crow, by Michelle Alexander, a comparison is made between modern mass incarceration, fueled by the War on Drugs, and old Jim Crow laws. This comparison is made through the examination of the American police state and felons rights in relation to black bodies. While this issue is something that, Alexander argues, affects primarily black people in the United States, the book is clearly aimed at a white educated audience for whom these issues have less direct ramifications. This…

Racial equality has always been a sensitive and controversial topic in the world, and during the Jim Crow era it was an especially hard time for blacks. The biggest problem was with traveling, finding motels, and finding a diner that would even let african americans eat there. During this time period you had the choice whether you wanted to serve a black person or not. In spite of this, black civic leader Victor H. Green created a guide book of rules for blacks when traveling. This included…

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…