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...and judiciously is self negating. Spare the rod and spoil the child is not valid today as the contrary is more likely to spoil the child. This is in fact what is happening in our society today. Our laws target to prevent the crime and through a vicious circle of incarceration end up in promoting it simply because of the real focus being upon segregation of those whom we don’t want to be in the mainsream of our society. How incarceration can be counter effective and promote discrimination is the point to ponder upon. This was the point that flashed across the mind of Michelle Alexander, an associate professor at the Moritz College of Law at Ohio State University, while he happened to quickly glance at a roadside bill reading, "The Drug...
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...achieved in the United States of the America. Part 11-Annotated Bibliography A. Klarman, Michael. From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality. London: Oxford University Press, 2004. This book was written for anyone who wishes to learn about the part that the judicial system played in relation to the Jim Crow Laws. The book also has information on various areas where Jim Crow Laws were in effect. Details on the political and social contexts within which the Supreme Court Justice operates and the consequences of their decisions based on the...
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...the civil war. The Thirteenth amendment was established to abolish slavery while the Fourteenth amendment was established to protect human rights that were adversely affected by racial segregation. However, the two amendments continued to experience challenges because even after the enforcement they were altered by the majority whites to suit their needs and prevent equality between the whites and the blacks. A good example of such alteration is the Jim Crow laws (Foner, pp.632-672). Jim Crow Laws In the year 1890 the state passed laws that were aimed at increasing racial segregation against the black people. One of the examples of these laws is the Jim...
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...Assignment Assignment The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness is written by Michelle Alexander on the theme of the current high levels of mass incarceration focusing mainly in the United States of America. The continent has a high rate, 25% of incarceration with only 5% of the total population in the world. The litigator has also discussed the issues that people belonging to various races in the country have been going through and the suppression that they face in society. African American men as well as other people belonging to different ‘colors’ have been facing a number of consequences barring them from gaining equal representation in the country which has...
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...their lives. The Jim Crow was guided by Jim Crow norms and etiquettes that aimed to maintain white superiority and domination while making blacks feel that they were an inferior race. The Jim Crow could not function without oppression and violence being used to instill fear and white domination.
Bibliography
Boskin Joseph. Urban racial violence in the twentieth century (2nd ed.). Beverly Hills, CA:
Glencoe Press, 1976.
Klarman Michael. From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for
Racial Equality. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Parrish Robert, Ortiz Paul, and...
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...Topic: The New Jim Crow Published by The New Press in The New Jim Crow is a book by Michelle Alexander that talks about race and its relation to the present social and political status of United States. The book is named after the Jim Crow laws of the 1960s. The author in her book mainly talks about the turning back of clock for the American society where racism is emerging as a threat again for the society and progress of this nation. The author states that America now holds more than 25% of the total...
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...Impact of Mass Incarceration and Michelle Alexander’s Stance Mass incarceration remains one of the critical issues in the American Society. The aim of this paper is to assess the impact of mass incarceration on the African Americans in United States. The assessment of the impact has been done with the reference of The New Jim Crow written by Michelle Alexander. Also, the paper will also discuss about Michelle Alexander who has researched the impact from different point of views.
Michelle Alexander is an associate professor at the Ohio State University who gained worldwide recognition because of her first ever book entitled The New...
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...Book review: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. By Michelle Alexander (New York: The New Press, With umpteen number of reminders in the realm of racial injustice, people would have thought that the Jim Crow era was long passé. But if we have to follow the thoughts of Michelle Alexander, the author of The New Jim Crow, we would be led to find and believe that there are too many indications of a new type of racial injustice, one which is silent and hidden, almost like a restructured and reframed racial...
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...inform public about the subtle Jim Crow rules within the judicial system but also about the repercussion on the society that adds to the woes of the vulnerable. Throughout the article, author has been consistently using rhetorical approach to communicate important message or information to the target group or the public.
The ethos applied in the article gives credibility to the author and convinces the reader about the authenticity of the text. It informs that the author holds a job of high repute. She is ‘director of the Racial Justice Project for the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California’. Using the ethical paradigm of introducing...
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