In chapter five of Michelle Alexander’s book entitled‚ “The New Jim Crow”‚ she tackles the topic that most of the Americans ignore. In the beginning of this chapter‚ she mentioned president Barack Obama’s speech on father’s day. In Obama’s he stated that many fathers are missing or MIA‚ and AWOL with their responsibilities. This scenarios can perfectly describe African Americans family‚ where many children does not have their fathers by their side. As Alexander argues‚ “a black child born today
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Within Chapter 2 of The New Jim Crow‚ Michelle Alexander talks about the Fourth Amendment‚ which warrants against unreasonable search and seizure‚ which is rarely mentioned today. I then realized that the problem now is that we are not told about our civil rights and liberties‚ which results in our loss of agency and power. This especially happens to more disenfranchised groups such as African Americans and Latinos‚ in addition to other racial and ethnic groups deemed “suspicious”. To those who believe
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Trebor Adams The New Jim Crow In the book “The new Jim Crow” author Michelle Alexander goes in great about a race-related social‚ political‚ and legal phenomena‚ which is mass incarceration. Mass incarceration is the new form of Jim Crow laws because of its effects are not only similar but in its new form more effective. Mass Incarceration causes racial segregation‚ racial discrimination‚ and hinders the advancement of a people through “a tightly networked system of laws‚ policies‚ customs
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called “Jim Crow” laws‚ and they were designed to stop desegregation amongst black and white men. There are many stories to tell about them‚ and how they degraded black men at that time. They allowed the use of any type of tactic to insult black men. Times really have not changed so much with the law and people of the United States often wonder if they cannot trust the people who are suppose to
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Introduction Jim Crow laws are about power. Power of one race over another. These laws really highlight the flaws and weakness of human nature. One group of people asserting power over another for the pride and vanity of a system of politics that had been defeated at the cost of thousands of American lives during the civil war. The term "Jim Crow" has its origins of interest also. The interpretation was intended to ridicule the African American by white American’s in the position of
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 Jim Crow Laws The name for the Jim Crow Laws comes from a character in a Minstrel Show. The Minstrel Show was one of the first forms of American entertainment‚ which started in 1843. They were performed by successors of black song and dance routine actors. The first Minstrel Show was started by a group of four men from Virginia‚ who all painted their faces black and performed a small song and dance skit in a small theater in New York City. Thomas Dartmouth Rice‚ a white
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that didn’t always help them. Those laws that went against it or found a way around the Civil Rights act of 1866. There have been laws‚ acts‚ and amendments to help end segregation and then there have also been laws to encourage segregation. The Jim Crow laws have discriminated in so many ways since it was created. These laws often kept African Americans from going into certain public places
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Jim Crow Laws Between 1877 and the mid 1960s‚ the Jim Crow laws‚ enacted by many U.S. states after the reconstruction period‚ kept blacks and whites separate. Jim Crow laws were not just laws‚ they were a way of life. These laws are a horrific reminder of the racial barriers and segregation that oppressed an entire population. These laws were first established in the South. They then spread widely throughout the United States. The Jim Crow laws were legislation that banned blacks and whites from
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Jim Crow Laws Jim Crow Laws began after the Civil War ended and African-Americans were given their rights and freedoms. These laws were only enforced in the southern states where people owned slaves to keep African-Americans from gaining any type of success. They began after the Civil War and were not ended until the 1960’s. In the Jim Crow law days it was illegal for a black man to touch a white women or it would be considered rape. In To Kill a Mockingbird Tom Robinson is convicted of raping Mayella
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What Was Jim Crow? Jim Crow was the name of the racial caste system which operated primarily‚ but not exclusively in southern and border states between 1877 and the mid-1960s. Jim Crow was more than a series of rigid anti-Black laws. It was a way of life. Under Jim Crow‚ African Americans were relegated to the status of second class citizens. Jim Crow represented the legitimization of anti-Black racism. Many Christian ministers and theologians taught that Whites were the Chosen people‚ Blacks
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