Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow

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After reading the book The New Jim Crow it has opened my eyes to a bunch of things that were hidden. In the preface of the book it reads this book is not for everyone. I have a specific audience in mind says Michelle Alexander the author. That audience is the people who care deeply about racial justice. The fact that Michelle Alexander was able to write this book and open the eyes of many Americans during a time where the once was Jim Crow Era was precedent is not now but there is levels of it still around is so amazing. In The Introduction Michelle starts off by iterating how many generations of black men have suffered because of the injustices of our justice system and the fact that we are labeled aggressive “predators”. We have not ended racial caste in America, we have merely redesigned it. Back than it was slavery, oppression, segregation, and etc. This new system had been developed and implemented swiftly, and it was largely invisible, even to people that mass incarceration and a new tactic pushed by the government “The War on Drugs” was The Jim Crow New…show more content…
In a book written by Michael Tonry titled Thinking about Crime he explains that crime and punishment has no correlation in the United States because Government decides how much punishment they want to give, but these decisions are in no simple way related to crime rates. While mass incarceration is labeled as a criminal justice issue as opposed to a racial justice or civil rights issue. A statistic given by the author of the book The New Jim Crow says that one in three young African American men will serve time in prison if current trends continue, and in some cities more than half of all young adult black men are currently under correctional control; i.e. prison, jail, parole, or

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