The New Jim Crow
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What’s it about?
Mass incarceration is a new racial caste system, replacing Jim Crow by locking millions of Black Americans into permanent second-class status through the war on drugs and colorblind laws.
You’ll learn
- Mass incarceration as racial control
- War on drugs targets Black communities
- Felony label creates permanent underclass
- Colorblind policing hides systemic bias