POL 4275 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Fifteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution, Fourteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution, Literacy Test
22 Apr 2018
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Michelle alexander notes - the new jim crow. Racial caste - the us society-structural claim. Based on a claim of structural/racial domination - endurance over time. Presentation through transformation - while economy, parties, etc. change, it persists. To know if this is true, we need empirical data and conceptual analysis. 1) african americans, as a social group, are economically disadvantaged relative to whites, as a social group. Average income lower, wealth, net worth lower than whites; experience economic precarity more often, and lower levels of social/economic mobility (over life and parent child) than whites. Iris young, when counting other factors, still disadvantaged relative to whites. 2) more heavily criminalized as a social group. Charged with crime, convicted, higher sentences, time and intensity, reprieve, force, impact after release. 3) there is a relation between #1 and #2 - thus, systematic. Yes, if it follows predictable, stable patterns over time (historic) Bacon"s rebellion - key moment what ideologies about natural/necessity inferiority of.
