The War on Drugs
Who announced the War on Drugs in 1982?
What system came after slavery?
Jim Crow
What term describes large-scale imprisonment?
Mass incarceration
What issue should civil rights groups prioritize more?
Criminal justice reform
What is a racial caste system?
A system locking groups into inferior social status
What drug became heavily associated with media panic in the 1980s?
Crack cocaine
What does Alexander compare mass incarceration to?
Jim Crow segregation
What happens to many people after release from prison?
They face discrimination
What movement does Alexander compare future reform efforts to?
The Civil Rights Movement
What does "colorblindness" mean in the book?
Ignoring race while inequality still exists
True or False: Drug use was rising sharply when the War on Drugs began.
False
What rebellion united poor whites and Black laborers in colonial America?
Bacon's Rebellion
What rights are commonly restricted after felony convictions?
Voting, housing, and employment rights
What famous civil rights leader is referenced in the book?
Martin Luther King Jr.
What institution is said to operate as social control?
The criminal justice system
What did media stereotypes help increase?
Support for harsher drug laws and policing
What phrase describes racism adapting over time?
Preservation through transformation
What does Alexander call the marginalized social group created by the system?
The undercaste
What does Alexander say society must openly discuss?
Race and racial inequality
Permenant second-class citizenship
What population increased dramatically because of drug convictions?
The prison population
What does Alexander argue repeatedly emerges in American history?
New systems of racial control
What does Alexander say the system is based on: prison time or the prison label?
The prison label
What does Alexander believe is necessary to dismantle the system?
A broad social movement
What's the main message of the book?
Mass incarceration continues racial inequality in a new form