Mass Incarceration
According to The New Jim Crow, name on of the factors that led to the explosion of the U.S. prison population since the 1980s
What is:
The War on Drugs
Harsh sentencing laws
Police incentives
Racialized media narratives
Political rhetoric
In The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander explains that colorblindness ignores this problem in the criminal justice system, which affects Black Americans the most.
What is racial discrimination?
This Amendment contains a prohibition on race discrimination for voting.
What is the 15th?
According to The New Jim Crow, this policy shift in the 1980s marked the beginning of a sharp increase in the incarceration of Black Americans, specifically through a focus on drug offenses
What is the War on Drugs?
Michelle Alexander argues that this label allows for legalized discrimination in employment, housing, and voting — echoing past systems of racial control.
What is being labeled a felon?
(TRUE OR FALSE) According to The New Jim Crow, the number of people incarcerated in the U.S. increased from about 300,000 in 1972 to over 2 million by 2008.
What is True?
The New Jim Crow discusses this policy that increased prison sentences for minor drug offenses, leading to more people, especially Black Americans, being incarcerated for longer periods.
What is mandatory minimum sentencing?
In The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander describes how colorblindness allows people to overlook the impact of this practice or law, which leads to racial profiling and mass incarceration.
What is "Stop and Frisk"?
Under which presidential administration did the War on Drugs become an official campaign?
What is Ronald Reagan?
In The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander describes how this legal status, created by a felony conviction, severely limits access to jobs, housing, and voting for millions of Americans, primarily affecting Black individuals.
What is "second-class citizenship"?
According to Alexander, this psychological and social force — not overt racism — is most responsible for sustaining racial caste in the era of colorblindness.
What is racial indifference?
__#__ in __#__ young African American men is currently under the control of the criminal justice system—in prison, in jail, on probation, or on parole (2008)
What is 1 in 3?
In The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander highlights this law, which mandates a life sentence without the possibility of parole for individuals convicted of certain drug-related offenses, as a key driver of mass incarceration
What is "three strikes laws"?
The book argues that mass incarceration is so entrenched in American society because the public has largely accepted this myth.
What is the myth of racial progress or “we live in a post-racial society”?
The New Jim Crow discusses how the Supreme Court's ruling in this 1968 case gave legal authority to police officers to stop and frisk individuals based on reasonable suspicion, which disproportionately affects Black and Brown people.
What is Terry v. Ohio?