#michellealexander

[tubbsmccracken]

A book that everyone should read - It’s simply amazing, as well as educational.

[spanky606]

Reposted from @dtr360books - In the eight years since its publication, “The New Jim Crow,” a book by Michelle Alexander that explores the phenomenon of mass incarceration, has sold well over a million copies, been compared to the work of W.E.B. Du Bois, been cited in the legal decisions to end stop-and-frisk and sentencing laws, and been quoted passionately on stage at the Academy Awards. But for the more than 130,000 adults in prison in North Carolina and Florida, the book is strictly off-limits. And prisoners around the country often have trouble obtaining copies of the book, which points to the vast racial disparities in sentencing policy, and the way that mass incarceration has ravaged the African-American population. This month, after protests, New Jersey revoked a ban some of its prisons had placed on the book, while New York quickly scrapped a program that would have limited its inmates’ ability to receive books at all. Ms. Alexander, a civil rights lawyer and former clerk on the Supreme Court, said the barriers to reading the book are no accident. “Some prison officials are determined to keep the people they lock in cages as ignorant as possible about the racial, social and political forces that have made the United States the most punitive nation on earth,” she said. “Perhaps they worry the truth might actually set the captives free.” A spokeswoman for the Florida Department of Corrections confirmed that the book had been banned but would not elaborate. A form from the prison system’s literature review committee obtained by The New York Times indicates that the book was rejected because it presented a security threat and was filled with what the document called “racial overtures.” In North Carolina prisons, “The New Jim Crow” has been banned multiple times, most recently on Feb. 24, 2017, when it was deemed “likely to provoke confrontation between racial groups.” State policy dictates that such bans can last for only a year, so the book will be permitted in the state’s prisons late next month — unless it is banned again. Source: nytimes.com #DTR360BOOKS #Mediaoutrage #racism #amerikkka #TheNewJimCrow #MichelleAlexander #FoodForThought #BlackAuth https://www.instagram.com/p/BwDJgZbn27H/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1wcogrw1up6s7

[alejandroroche]

When the system of mass incarceration collapses (and if history is any guide, it will), historians will undoubtedly look back and marvel that such an extraordinarily comprehensive system of racialized social control existed in the United States. How fascinating, they will likely say, that a drug war was waged almost exclusively against poor people of color—people already trapped in ghettos that lacked jobs and decent schools. They were rounded up by the millions, packed away in prisons, and when released, they were stigmatized for life, denied the right to vote, and ushered into a world of discrimination. Legally barred from employment, housing, and welfare benefits—and saddled with thousands of dollars of debt—these people were shamed and condemned for failing to hold together their families. They were chastised for succumbing to depression and anger, and blamed for landing back in prison. Historians will likely wonder how we could describe the new caste system as a system of crime control, when it is difficult to imagine a system better designed to create—rather than prevent—crime.

Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

[remikanazi]

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[tubbsmccracken]

An action-packed book that I have returned to reading. It's full of so much information that shines a light of truth on so many lies we were told about the war on drugs from the Nixon, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton administrations. Shocking what politicians will do for power and control. If interested in truth, check out this fantastic book by Michelle Alexander, it's brilliant. The New Jim Crow.

The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States. Other areas of the United States were affected by formal and informal policies of segregation as well, but many states outside the South had adopted laws, beginning in the late 19th century, banning discrimination in public accommodations and voting. Southern laws were enacted in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by white Southern Democrat-dominated state legislatures to disenfranchise and remove political and economic gains made by African Americans during the Reconstruction period. Jim Crow laws were enforced until 1965. In practice, Jim Crow laws mandated racial segregation in all public facilities in the states of the former Confederate States of America and in some others, beginning in the 1870s. Jim Crow laws were upheld in 1896 in the case of Plessy vs. Ferguson, in which the Supreme Court laid out its "separate but equal" legal doctrine concerning facilities for African Americans. Moreover, public education had essentially been segregated since its establishment in most of the South after the Civil War in 1861–65. Although in theory, the "equal" segregation doctrine was extended to public facilities and transportation too, facilities for African Americans were consistently inferior and underfunded compared to facilities for white Americans; sometimes, there were no facilities for the black community at all. Far from equality, as a body of law, Jim Crow institutionalized economic, educational, political, and social disadvantages and second-class citizenship for most African Americans living in the United States. After the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded in 1909, it became involved in a sustained public protest and campaigns against the Jim Crow laws, and the so-called "separate but equal" doctrine. In 1954, segregation of public schools (state-sponsored) was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren in the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education. In some states, it took many years to implement this decision, while the Warren Court continued to rule against Jim Crow legislation in other cases such as Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States (1964). In general, the remaining Jim Crow laws were overruled by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

[tubbsmccracken]

An old dog is never too old to learn new things. I am grateful to have been introduced to the amazing storytelling I have found in reading The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander. It's brilliant. Sometimes I have to stop and think about what was said and how so much hatred and racism still exist today as they did many centuries ago. I am learning the truth about all history and discovering the similarities of the vicious lies used to hide the truth in every country. 

[tubbsmccracken]

I finally completed the best book that taught me so much about all the lies that politicians and the media tell us every day. The book changed my life. Here are a few quotes: “One of the most influential books of the last 20 years.” —Chronicle of Higher Education “Two years after Obama’s election, Alexander put the entire criminal justice system on trial, exposing racial discrimination from lawmaking to policing to the denial of voting rights to ex-prisoners. This bestseller struck the spark that would eventually light the fire of Black Lives Matter.” —Ibram X. Kendi, The New York Times “[The New Jim Crow] transformed forever the way thinkers and activists view the phenomenon of mass incarceration.” —Slate

[distrolord]

I personal gave out 15 more book to my close fam #MichelleAlexander is the TRUTH TRUTH 💎 Everything were going through is in this Book 💎 https://www.instagram.com/p/CNh63J-g8l3/?igshid=ww9s8qt9dh3w