The Jena 6 were six school aged boys who were charged with this after fighting with a classmate
What is attempted murder
100
According to Alexander, civil rights organizations have been reluctant to advocate on behalf of this group of people
What are criminals
100
According to scholars cited by Alexander, imprisonment now creates far more of this than it prevents.
What is crime
100
1. This, far more than racial hostility, forms the sturdy foundation for all racial caste systems.
What is colorblindness
100
1. The name All Of Us Or None explicitly challenges this kind of politics.
What are politics that affords inclusion and acceptance for a few but guarantees exclusion for many?
200
According to Rev. Al Sharpton, we have gone from plantations to this
What is penitentiaries?
200
Civil rights advocates decided to not use Claudette Colvin as the plaintiff in a suit challenging segregation laws because of this medical condition
What is pregnancy
200
These are some major effects of the War on Drugs.
What are poverty, chronic unemployment, broken families, and crime?
200
2. This has been framed as a legitimate exception to the colorblindness principle.
What is Affirmative action
200
2. According to WEB Du Bois, lower class whites had this, which helped compensate for their low pay and harsh working conditions.
What is the public and psychological wage
300
A display of these on the school's playground was said to have been the catalyst for the fight
What are nooses
300
“One reason so many people have a false impression of the economic well-being of African Americans, as a group, is that poverty and unemployment statistics do not include” these people
What is behind bars
300
The system of mass incarceration can be considered a great success if we assume that it was understood as this
What is a system of social, and specifically racial, control?
300
3. “Our collective colorblindness prevents us from seeing this basic fact.” about who commits crime
What is the fact that black and brown men are rounded up for crimes that go unnoticed when committed by whites?
300
3. “Obama’s budget for law enforcement is actually worse than the Bush administration’s in terms of” this ratio.
What is What is dollars devoted to prevention and treatment as opposed to law enforcement?
400
According to Alexander, this kind of bigotry is "no longer reflective of the prevailing public consensus about race?
What is overt racism?
400
In 2006, the United States spent this many times the amount of money as in 1982 on “justice expenditures”.
What is 3 times
400
Some whites are so loath to talk about race and so fearful of violating racial etiquette that they indicate a preference for” this.
What is a preference for avoiding all contact with black people
400
4. Racial justice advocates should consider if this has functioned more accurately as a racial bribe than justice.
What is affirmative action
400
3. “If your strategy for racial justice involves waiting for whites to be [this], history suggests it will be a long wait.”
What is fair
500
According to Alexander, isolated victories in prison reform can be won, but the absence of this will keep the whole system intact
What is a shift in public consciousness?
500
The temptation to avoid race, combined with “the fact that opportunities for challenging mass incarceration on” these grounds have never been higher due to sky high debt incurred from the PIC adds to the silence around the racialized reality of the PIC.
What are purely non-racial grounds
500
5. According to Alexander, this kind of racial diversity that makes institutions look good on the surface has done more to help incarcerate young black men than to hinder it
What is cosmetic racial diversity?
500
Obama promises to revive this Clinton era program, which is responsible for “the militarization of policing, SWAT teams, Pipeline drug task forces,”
What is What is Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS)?