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What is key to America’s understanding of class is the persistent belief — despite all evidence to t...

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Michelle AlexanderThe New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Parents and schoolteachers counsel black children that, if they ever hope to escape this system and ...

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Michelle AlexanderThe New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

When we think of racism we think of Governor Wallace of Alabama blocking the schoolhouse door; we th...

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Michelle AlexanderThe New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Arguably the most important parallel between mass incarceration and Jim Crow is that both have serve...

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Michelle AlexanderThe New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

A new civil rights movement cannot be organized around the relics of the earlier system of control i...

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Michelle AlexanderThe New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Because the drug war has been waged almost exclusively in poor communities of color, when drug offen...

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Michelle AlexanderThe New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Jim Crow, moreover, was seen executing his world-renowned dance, in gingerbread.

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Nathaniel HawthorneThe House of the Seven Gables

That Jim Crow there in the window," answered the urchin, holding out a cent, and pointing to the gin...

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It was not, then, race and culture calling out of the South in 1876; it was property and privilege, ...

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W. E. B. Du BoisBlack Reconstruction in America 1860-1880