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Legal scholar Michelle Alexander asserts that mass incarceration resulting from the “War on Drugs” is the latest manifestation of a racial caste system that is presumed to have ended with the Jim Crow era. This latest form of social control is particularly insidious because it is not explicitly racist, but commonly believed to be “colorblind.” Alexander’s argument is supported by the fact that black poverty rates have not changed and even worsened in some cases since the death ...more
Legal scholar Michelle Alexander asserts that mass incarceration resulting from the “War on Drugs” is the latest manifestation of a racial caste system that is presumed to have ended with the Jim Crow era. This latest form of social control is particularly insidious because it is not explicitly racist, but commonly believed to be “colorblind.” Alexander’s argument is supported by the fact that black poverty rates have not changed and even worsened in some cases since the death ...more
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