SOC 0829 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: The New Jim Crow, Mass Incarceration, Grandfather Clause
21 Feb 2017
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The new jim crow: mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness. Today a criminal freed from prison has scarcely more rights, and arguably less respect, than a freed slave or a black person living free in mississippi at the height of jim crow: - michelle alexander. More african americans are under correctional control today in prison or jail, on probation or parole than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the civil war began. Those coming in and out of america"s prisons today are members of america"s new racial undercaste. Exclusion from juries: another clear parallel between mass incarceration and jim crow is the systematic exclusion of blacks from juries. Racial segregation: racial segregation rendered black experience largely invisible to whites, making it easier for whites to maintain racial stereotypes about black values and culture. It also made it easier to deny or ignore their suffering.
