Summary Of The New Jim Crow

The New Jim Crow was published January 5, 2010 and is 312 pages in length. The book’s author is Michelle Alexander; she is a civil rights lawyer and legal scholar. She graduated from Stanford Law School and Vanderbilt University. In 2011 The New Jim Crow won the NAACP Image Award for best nonfiction. “This book is not for everyone I have a specific audience in mind - people who care deeply about racial justice but who, for any number of reasons, do not yet appreciate the magnitude of the crisis

Michelle Alexander begins her story of “The New Jim Crow”, as she provides her thoughts and arguments on Chapter one of “the rebirth of caste”. The Chapter explains the myths provided towards slavery after the civil war, as black people weren’t exactly free. Whites were furious and felt the issue of the law was unnecessary, which led to a continuous fight to revert the law to their only source of income. African Americans were finally given a break; however the actions of white southern began to

Jeffrey Guardado Professor Whitney English 101 20 May 2017 The New Jim Crow In Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow, she covers many issues with the U.S criminal justice system. The criminal justice system purposely targets people of color with the same laws as the Jim Crow. Racial-Profiling for African Americans relates to today legal system on discrimination and exclusion. Mass incarceration is one form of racial discrimination to gain social control. Many African Americans have been kept in

In The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander develops a compelling analogy on how mass incarceration is similar to the Jim Crow era, and is a “race-making institution.” She begins her work with the question, “Where have all the black men gone?” (Alexander, 178) She demonstrates how the media and Obama have failed to give an honest answer to this question, that the large majority of them or in prison. She argues that in order to address this problem, we must be honest about the fact that this is happening

In the first three chapters of Michelle Alexander’s book, The New Jim Crow, she discusses the mass incarceration of African Americans through drug crimes. In each of the three chapters she explores the unjust criminal justice system and it’s racial bias towards African Americans. Chapter one is about the history of racial segregation and bias towards African Americans. In this chapter she argues that there will always be a racial caste system, which happens to be mass incarceration, today. Alexander

In the book The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander, gives the reader a look at the history of racism. She begins her work by talking about her working experience at ACLU (The American Civil Liberties Union) in northern California. Once she started working there, she realized how the criminal justice systems had problems of racial bias. As a lawyer who disputed numerous cases on discrimination, she understood that there are many ways in which racial stereotyping can change the subject decision making

In the book “The New Jim Crow”, Michelle Alexander makes the statement that “under the terms of our country’s founding document, slaves were defined as three-fifths of a man, not a real, whole human being. Upon this racist fiction rests the entire structure of American democracy.” (p. 26) I agree with Alexanders statement, that slaves were not created equal based on the constitution, and this has influenced American democracy. Throughout my analysis I will describe the reasons of why I agree with

In the novel, The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander makes the statement that “Under the terms of our country’s founding document, slaves were defined as three-fifths of a man, not a real, whole human being. Upon this racist fiction rests the entire structure of American democracy” (Alexander 26). I agree with Alexanders statement, that slaves were not created equal based on the Constitution, and this has influenced American democracy. Throughout my analysis, I will analyze Alexanders statement and

Michaela Gibbs Mrs. Lohlein Honors American Literature 8 December 2017 SOAPStone Analysis of The New Jim Crow Speaker: Alexander shares her experience developing her understanding of mass incarceration as a new racial caste system to display that it is not surprising if people do not recognize it initially and do not understand or agree with her argument because she, herself didn’t recognize these events occurring either. Presented in the introduction, Alexander states that “I reached the conclusions

According to Michelle Alexander there is a new Jim Crow happening in America today but it disguises itself in multiple ways. The new Jim Crow refers to the criminal justice system and the way that it is used to control poor people of color. It involves mass incarceration because it is a form of social control used to oppress poor people of color, but mostly targets African-Americans. The U.S. Supreme Court has also contributed to the new Jim Crow by setting precedents that make it easier for trial