Discrimination in The New Jim Crow Essay

The New Jim Crow Mass incarceration in the Age of colorblindness by Michelle Alexander is a book that I feel every person should read, it is not only limited to the African American people. When Michelle Alexander wrote her book, she had a specific audience in mind. This book was written for those unaware of “the magnitude of the crisis faced by communities of color because of mass incarceration” (Alexander, 2010). During many periods of life there has been chaos among American communities of…

E. (2001). Access to Justice for Immigrants Who are Victimized: The Perspectives of Police and Prosecutors. Criminal Justice Policy Review. 12(3) 183-196. Immigrations to the United States in the last decade has made the criminal system to add new laws. In most of the cases victims are afraid to reported crimes. These create a issue because if crimes are not report, is more hard to stop future crimes or make justice to the victims. The dependent variable was victims of hate crime, and the…

In Michelle Alexanders “The New Jim Crow” she discusses the problem the black community faces of not having fathers in kids’ lives. To start off she brings up a speech that President Barrack Obamas gave at the Apostolic Church of God in Chicago. Obama brings up the fact that in the African American culture there are way too many fathers missing from their families’ lives and how they are not taking over their responsibilities. Obama is asking for everyone to realize that the problem is real and…

of Jim Crow laws like it was in the 1960s, but racism is still taking place. It is interweaved into the society so well it can almost go undetected. The easiest way to notice it is to take the implicit association test like I did. In the test it said word for word I have a “strong automatic preference for light skin compared to dark skin”.…

equal. After the abolitionist movement was successful, African Americans were finally considered free from the restrictions of slavery. However, 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, blacks still lived in a segregated and unequal world. Jim Crow laws infringed on their unalienable rights, the same rights that thousands of people lost their lives fighting for just decades before. . Precedents like “separate but equal” were passed down from the same federal government created to protect…

Critical Reaction #10: “Gattaca” Movie Summary In the not too distant future where genetic engineering in humans is common and DNA determines a person's social class. Vincent is conceived and born without the aid of this technology. Dealing with the nearly demolished physical dysfunctions of heart problems, as well as having a short life expectancy. The only way he can achieve his lifelong dream of going to space is to break the law and act as a "valid" person with appropriate genetic code.…

After the civil war, the three most common questions present in every American mind consisted of what is the government going to do about the freedmen, how are the rebel states going to enter back into the union, and what is the government going to do about the leadership of the Confederate States of America. It was during this period that the term ‘freedmen’ became known to refer to those people who became ex-slaves after the civil war. Many Americans wondered how were the freedmen going to…

Firstly, the period of reconstruction in the south after the civil war ended before completion in the south. The laws such as the civil rights act of 1865 and the new amendments to the constitution were predominantly “nullified” in the south due to the white control of local governments and such laws not being enforced (Doc 6). As a result African American remain inferior to whites in the south because they were…

Reader Response Journal #1 The novel I chose for the theme of “Good vs. Evil” is The Help, written by Kathryn Stockett. Contrary to popular belief, the book is a work of fiction, although the events of discrimination described was definitely a real problem, especially in the Southern United States. The novel has a very unique approach to storytelling, in that each chapter is given by a different (main) character’s perspective. For example, the story begins with the strong and wise maid in…

drugs”. In the book “The New Jim Crow”, written by Michelle Alexander, argues that law-enforcement officials, due to the erosion of the Fourth amendment, inflict discriminatory practices. The Fourth amendment was put in place to protect citizens against unwarranted searches and seizures, however this is hardly followed by law-enforcement because of the governments affirmation on the war on drugs. Over our societies history and institutionalized practices of discrimination, especially the…