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Title details for A Macat Analysis of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander - Available

A Macat Analysis of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

by Michelle Alexander
Ryan Moore
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The United States has the world's largest prison population, with more than two million behind bars. Alexander says this is mainly due to America's 'war on drugs,' launched in 1982. In The New Jim Crow, she explains how this government initiative has led to America's black citizens being imprisoned on a colossal scale. She compares this mass detention—with black men up to 50 times more likely to be jailed than white men—to the Jim Crow era segregation that once pervaded the American South. Though the Civil Rights Movement supposedly ended segregation in the early 1960s, the war on drugs opened the door to a new racial caste system.

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Series: The Macat Library Publisher: Macat International Limited. Edition: Unabridged

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  • ISBN: 9781912128877
  • File size: 53290 KB
  • Release date: August 31, 2017
  • Duration: 01:51:01

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  • ISBN: 9781912128877
  • File size: 53295 KB
  • Release date: August 31, 2017
  • Duration: 01:52:01
  • Number of parts: 2
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Ethics Gender Studies Nonfiction

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The United States has the world's largest prison population, with more than two million behind bars. Alexander says this is mainly due to America's 'war on drugs,' launched in 1982. In The New Jim Crow, she explains how this government initiative has led to America's black citizens being imprisoned on a colossal scale. She compares this mass detention—with black men up to 50 times more likely to be jailed than white men—to the Jim Crow era segregation that once pervaded the American South. Though the Civil Rights Movement supposedly ended segregation in the early 1960s, the war on drugs opened the door to a new racial caste system.

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Ethics Gender Studies Nonfiction
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