{"id":16403,"date":"2021-02-03T12:21:10","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T20:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/palomarperforms\/?p=16403"},"modified":"2021-02-03T12:21:10","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T20:21:10","slug":"the-new-jim-crow-mass-incarceration-in-the-age-of-colorblindness-by-michelle-alexander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/palomarperforms\/the-new-jim-crow-mass-incarceration-in-the-age-of-colorblindness-by-michelle-alexander\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Jim Crow Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The New Jim Crow<\/em>\u00a0is a stunning account of the rebirth of a caste-like system in the United States, one that has resulted in millions of African Americans locked behind bars and then relegated to a permanent second-class status\u2014denied the very rights supposedly won in the Civil Rights Movement. Since its publication in 2010, the book has appeared on the\u00a0New York Times\u00a0<\/em>bestseller list for more than a year; been dubbed the \u201csecular bible of a new social movement\u201d by numerous commentators, including\u00a0Cornel West<\/a>;\u00a0and has led to consciousness-raising efforts in universities, churches, community centers, re-entry centers, and prisons nationwide.\u00a0The New Jim Crow<\/em>\u00a0tells a truth our nation has been reluctant to face.<\/p>\n

As the United States celebrates its \u201ctriumph over race\u201d with the election of Barack Obama, the majority of black men in major urban areas are under correctional control or saddled with criminal records for life. Jim Crow laws were wiped off the books decades ago, but today an extraordinary percentage of the African American community is warehoused in prisons or trapped in a parallel social universe, denied basic civil and human rights\u2014including the right to vote; the right to serve on juries; and the right to be free of legal discrimination in employment, housing, access to education and public benefits. Today, it is no longer socially permissible to use race explicitly as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and social contempt. Yet as civil-rights-lawyer-turned-legal-scholar Michelle Alexander demonstrates, it is perfectly legal to discriminate against convicted criminals in nearly all the ways in which it was once legal to discriminate against African Americans. Once labeled a felon, even for a minor drug crime, the old forms of discrimination are suddenly legal again. In her words, \u201cwe have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alexander shows that, by targeting black men through the War on Drugs and decimating communities of color, the U.S. criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control, even as it formally adheres to the principle of colorblindness.<\/p>\n

The New Jim Crow<\/em>\u00a0challenges the civil rights community\u2014and all of us\u2014to place mass incarceration at the forefront of a new movement for racial justice in America.<\/p>\n

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