The Strange Career Of Jim Crow Summary

If states are the laboratories of democracy, then sports are the arena in which it is tested. This book serves as a review of racial integration and the changing dynamics in sports from 1890 - 1980. Charles Martin aims for the reader to understand why it was common place for white southerners to compete against “non-black” ethnic minorities (E.G. Native Americans, Chinese), but an issue when even a single African American was on an opposing team. Benching Jim Crow explains to the reader that the persistence of segregation lay with overarching cultural mentalities left over from the Civil War, but shifts in position came from external (financial), and internal (students and players). Though offering little insight into the legal and political impacts of Jim Crow itself, Martin paints a detailed, but redundant, narrative of the rise and fall of Jim Crow in athletics.

The Jim Crow laws were local and state laws that were supposedly “separate but equal,” but instead blacks were inferior to the whites due that to the social, educational, and economical disadvantages that they caused. In Woodward’s greatly influential book, The Strange Career of Jim Crow, he shows supporters of segregation that this was not the way that it had always been, but instead segregation took time to develop after the Civil war and that the acceptance of the Jim Crow laws was not just because of race, but also included politic aspects. Woodward proves his thesis by showing how the state between the two races was right after the race the war and how slavery required interaction between blacks and whites. Woodward continues to

C. Vann Woodward illuminates one of the “ugliest” aspects of American societal history in his book The Strange Career of Jim Crow. His book is an overview of the development of the Jim Crow system, a set of racist laws put in place around the turn of the nineteenth century. Interestingly his book tracks the evolution of racism throughout American history. He not only shows where and when racism is developing but the different ways that the racism manifested itself in the North and South.

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, and the discrimination with the African American communities that is putting them there.

The first segment is about the "old" South and the plantations, slavery, supported by law, church, schools, and press. The second is the new order of Reconstruction, occupation and a changed federal Constitution. The third one is the third regime, following Reconstruction, which was the longest, characterized by the regime of "Jim Crow.” The last segment is the newest phase, comprising the demise of Jim Crow and the renewed intense devotion of the federal government and civil rights leaders to establish racial equality. This segments of Southern history has been involved to the relationship between the white and black race, specifically the legal and social status of blacks, and this work is essentially a study of the third segment - the rise and entrenchment of Jim

C. Vann Woodward’s book, The Strange Career of Jim Crow, has been hailed as a book which shaped our views of the history of the Civil Rights Movement and of the American South. Martin Luther King, Jr. described the book as “the historical Bible of the civil rights movement.” The argument presented in The Strange Career of Jim Crow is that the Jim Crow laws were relatively new introductions to the South that occurred towards the turn of the century rather than immediately after the end of Reconstruction after the Civil War. Woodward examines personal accounts, opinions, and editorials from the eras as well as the laws in place at the times. He examines the political history behind the emergence of

Answering this radical turn of events, Woodward published a third edition of Strange Career in 1974 to discuss the ambiguity faced by many African Americans in opposing the principles of Jim Crow laws while maintaining a distinctive racial identity. His research and continual revisions made The Strange Career of Jim Crow an undeniable force of the time with praise hailing from civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. who referred to it as “the historical bible of the civil rights movement.”

This “war on drugs,” which all subsequent presidents have embraced, has created a behemoth of courts, jails, and prisons that have done little to decrease the use of drugs while doing much to create confusion and hardship in families of color and urban communities.1,2Since 1972, the number of people incarcerated has increased 5-fold without a comparable decrease in crime or drug use.1,3 In fact, the decreased costs of opiates and stimulants and the increased potency of cannabis might lead one to an opposing conclusion.4 Given the politics of the war on drugs, skyrocketing incarceration rates are deemed a sign of success, not failure. I don’t totally agree with the book (I think linking crime and black struggle is even older than she does, for instance) but I think The New Jim Crow pursues the right line of questioning. “The prison boom is not the main cause of inequality between blacks and whites in America, but it did foreclose upward mobility

The book, The New Jim Crow written was written by Michelle Alexander. It was published on January 5, 2010 and is 312 pages long. It is a non fiction book that talks about the re-introduction of the caste-like system that has already resulted in millions of African Americans being locked in jail. During the Civil Rights Era, African Americans were put into a second class status that rejected all of the rights that blacks had previously won in the Civil Rights Movement. This book talks about many situations where blacks in today’s society are treated almost the same as they were over 50 years ago. For example, Alexander opens up the book with the story of a man named Jarvis Cotton. Cotton is a black man who was arrested when he was younger and because of that arrest, he will never be able to vote again. Throughout the history of the United States, African American men have been deprived of their supposed “natural born rights”. Alexander also discusses how Jarvis Cotton’s father, grandfather, and his ancestors have all been unable to pursue their naturally born rights, but all for various reasons. Cotton’s great grandfather for example, was a slave in the South and his grandfather and father were daunted by the Ku Klux Klan. Voting is one of the many rights that African American people have not had just because of the color of their skin.Alexander says that even though it used to be acceptable to discriminate against African Americans, it’s no longer socially acceptable to

The book, The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander is about the mass incarceration of African Americans in the criminal justice system. It depicts individuals who were arrested on drug crimes. Because these individuals are labeled as criminals, it becomes difficult for them to find work, housing, and public assistance. (Alexander, 2010) The themes in this book include denial and ignorance, racism and violence, and drugs.

Jim Crow was the name of the racial caste system which operated primarily, but not exclusively in southern and border states, between 1877 and the mid-1960s. Jim Crow was more than a series of rigid anti-black laws, it was a way of life. Under Jim Crow, African Americans were relegated to the status of second-class citizens. Some of the laws excluded blacks from public transport and facilities, juries, jobs, and neighborhoods, voting, holding public office, and school. Although the passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution had granted blacks the same legal protections as whites. After 1877, and the election of Republican Rutherford B. Hayes, southern and border states began restricting the liberties of blacks.

Comer Vann Woodward was an American historian who concentration emphasized on the American south and race relations in the united states. He was born in 1908 in eastern, rural Arkansas. He attended Henderson-Brown College, in Arkadelphia, Arkansas for two years. He then transferred to Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia in which his uncle was dean of students and a sociology professor. After Woodward graduated from Emory university, he became an English professor at Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia teach) and taught English composition for two years. In 1931, Woodward enrolled into graduate school at Columbiana university. He received a Master’s of Arts in 1932. In 1947, he received his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in history from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was a professor at Johns Hopkins University from 1946 to 1961. He then became Sterling Professor of History at Yale University from 1961 to 1977, in which he taught graduate students and undergraduates.

In The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Modern Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander, the author argues the legal system doing its job “perfectly” well—the United States has simply replaced one caste system, the Jim Crow laws instituted in the 1880s and designed to oppress recently freed black slaves, for another—a system which uses the War on Drugs, which was instituted in the 1970s, to imprison, parole, and detain people of color, keeping the majority of minorities in the United States in a permanent state of incarceration. This an important issue because it affects the everyday lives of people around the nation. Alexander looks in detail at what economists normally miss—the entire legal structure of the courts, parole, probation and laws that effectively turn a person who may have done the crime into a person who is unworthy or “incapable” of rehabilitation. Alexander does a wonderful job of telling the truth, and blaming the right people, who can be liberal or conservative, white or black, who inflict this injustice on others. Alexander’s writing, however, does lack a structure that the reader can follow, which ultimately weakens her overall case.

He notes that the events shaped the 19th century American history. THis al happened because of slavery, cotton and slaveswere valuable. The presence of slaves caused the Civil War.These are palin history facts that Americans have been trying to deal with ever since. Gates understand that talking about race means learning about America 's often sordid racial past. Gates is not claiming that a debate over race and racism is the driving element of over a hundred years of political debate. The famous three fifths counted three fifths of all slaves was just to boost congress. The legality of the slave trade until 1808 when the issue could be amended. Finkelman documents the constitution was a pro-slavery document. The compromise of slavery haunted the U.S.A. for decades. By the mid 19th century the rise of abolitionalism started many debates nd argugememts. The Confederate staes was founded on slavery. It began to say that blaacks were inferior to whites. THis fact only highlights the tragedies of a 4 year war which claimed 600,000 lives while leaving the lingering issue of racial equality unresolved. The Civil War is an event that shaped modern American identity. Slavery 's legacy runs so deep in AMerica because it was a highly personal institution first, and a major political and economic system second. Slavery was system were one group of people had demonization over another group. The loss of this economic and social demonization in 1865

Historians Oscar and Mary F. Handlin and C. Vann Woodward, argue in support of the relationship that suggests slavery led to the development of racism and that theories of racial difference are used to justify and reinforce various forms of inequality. In their 1950 book “Origins of the Southern Labor System,” Oscar and Mary F. Handlin examine journals and laws to develop and