The New Jim Crow
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Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow 2010, I read Michelle alexander's the new Jim Crow when it first came out, and I remember its colossal impact. So clearly not just on the academic world, but everywhere that was published during the Obama administration, an interval which many thought signaled a new dawn of race relations in America of a kind of fantastic post racialism. Though it's hard to look back on this particular zeitgeist now, without decrying the ignorance and naivete of this mindset, alexander's book called out this, the insistence on a phenomenon of color blindness. In 2012 as a veneer as a sham or is simply another form of ignorance. We have not ended racial caste in America, she declares we have merely redesigned it. Alexander's meticulous research concerns the mass incarceration of black men principally through the war on drugs, alexander explains how the United States government itself carries out a significant racist pattern of injustice, which not only subordinates black men by jailing them, but also then removes them of their rights and turns them into second class citizens. After the fact former convicts, she learns through working with the A. C. L. U. Will face discrimination which includes restrictions from voting rights, juries, food stamps, public housing, student loans and job opportunities. Unlike in Jim Crow days there were no whites only signs, Alexander explains. This system is out of sight out of mind. Her book, which exposes the settler but still horrible. New mode of social control is an essential, groundbreaking achievement which does more than call out the hypocrisy of our infrastructure but provided with obvious steps to change.