Legal scholar Michelle Alexander argues mass incarceration functions as a redesigned racial caste system in post–civil rights America.
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Legal scholar Michelle Alexander argues mass incarceration functions as a redesigned racial caste system in post–civil rights America.
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness is a 2010 book by Michelle Alexander, a civil rights litigator and legal scholar. The book discusses race-related issues specific to African-American males and mass incarceration in the United States, but Alexander noted that the discrimination faced by African-American males is prevalent among other minorities and socio-economically disadvantaged populations. Alexander's central premise, from which the book derives its title, is ...
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Violence & gore
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Recurring discussion of policing, incarceration, and historical racial violence
Profanity
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No profanity present
Substance use
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War on Drugs central; extensive focus on drug offenses and criminalization
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Occult / demonology
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Core thesis: mass incarceration as redesigned racial caste; critiques colorblindness
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Central focus on slavery, Jim Crow, and incarceration as racial oppression
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