Discrimination in The New Jim Crow Essay

In The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander argues that modern mass incarceration of African Americans is a new system based on the same principles as slavery and the original Jim Crow laws. Alexander also argues this new form of legal segregation is as degrading socially to African Americans as the original Jim Crow laws. Mass incarceration is just another in the line of legal segregation implemented in order to remove the undesirables from white society so white society can have their American…

defined as a racial group locked into an inferior position by law and custom. Alexander contends that Jim Crow, mass incarceration, and slavery were all caste systems. The original Jim Crow laws, that were put into place after slavery, advocated racial discrimination in public housing, employment, voting, and education. The Civil Rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s apparently ended the Jim Crow era by winning the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Even…

half of the twentieth century as a massive struggle for changes in African American lives. There were significant differences between the earlier Jim Crow years, approximately from 1890 to 1932, and the period from 1933 to 1954 include; the implementation of segregation, attainment of African American women’s rights, reduction of racial discrimination, white supremacy, and the eradication of civil and political. In addition, African Americans were deprived of education, employment, and economic…

bottom rung, this caste system governed social interactions in India until the 1950s. Much as discrimination based on caste has been illegal in India for over half of a century, discrimination based on race has been illegal in the United States of over half a century, as well. Michelle Alexander posits, in her book The New Jim Crow, that a social order based on race caste arose from the dismantling of Jim Crow laws in America. Alexander suggests America’s history can be described as a recurring…

included, to the high ideals set by our founding government. Americans have the responsibility to uphold the human rights to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness through historical understanding and empathy as described in Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow as well as self-reflection that inspires personal change in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist to challenge the American society to achieve its values of social equality. While this argument specifically focuses on American…

Jim Crow laws were created so African Americans were suppressed down to the level of slaves that they once were. Jim Crow started in 1887 and ended sometime during the Civil Rights movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr. These laws were inhumane and unnecessarily demeaning. Each one of these laws were created and enforced by whites. Jim Crow was not so much a who but a what. It was the name of racist system, derived from a highly stereotypical black character created and performed by a man…

This chapter considers how the caste system of operation, and once people released from prison. In many ways, the release from prison does not represent the beginning of freedom, but the humiliation and cruelty of a new stage of control. Official discrimination and social discrimination follow discourage offenders released to re-enter the larger society. Numerous laws and regulations discriminate against ex-offenders, prevent its significance for economic and social re-integration into the…

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…

“New Slaves” With laws implemented to create an intranational drug war, a “new slave” system has ultimately been a way to keep the status quo. As Howard Thurman believes, everyone should treat each other as equal children of God and love one another. By the deceit of a “colorblind” legal system, the inequality of whites and colored, rich and poor, remains. I believe all of us, as voters, must put effort into becoming educated on principles of love and equality, so we can bring about new ideas…

After the Civil War, black people were freed and became citizens, but they did not have the same rights as white people. “The Jim Crow Laws were statutes enacted by Southern states, beginning in the 1880s that legalized segregation between African-Americans and whites” (American Historama). “The Jim Crow Laws were not just a law that separated whites and blacks, but it was also “a way of life” (David Pilgrim). These laws made life for African-Americans extremely difficult; the next paragraph…