New Jim Crow Mass Incarceration War on Drugs
housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial of educational opportunity, denial of food stamps and other public benefits, and exclusion from jury service.”[footnoteRef:3] The author calls mass incarceration the means of enforcing a caste system in America. Most remarkably, Alexander claims in The New Jim Crow that the creation of a racial caste system is deliberate, part of a grand scheme machinated by the same demographic that would have supported Jim Crow several generations earlier. Essentially, Jim Crow—even slavery—had been rebranded. The media became the mouthpiece for the… Continue Reading...
