New Jim Crow Laws
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration and the War on Drugs From the 1880s into the 1960s, a majority of American states enforced segregation through "Jim Crow" laws. From Delaware to California, and from North Dakota to Texas, many states could impose legal punishments on people for consorting with members of another race. The most common types of laws forbade intermarriage and ordered business owners and public institutions to keep their black and white clientele separated. The overall point of the laws were to keep blacks oppressed. It is hard to believe that something like this could still be going on, but it is. Today in the era of “colorblindness”, the system of mass incarceration has emerged as a strikingly comprehensive and well-disguised
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After slavery black men were actually able to win their right and be treated as equal to whites for the most part. However beginning in the 1890s racism starts to take route and we get the Jim Crow Laws. In a depression racked 1890s “racism appeled to whites who feared losing their jobs to blacks (Steward).” This fear began a racial caste system known as the Jim Crow Laws “was more than a series of rigid anti-black laws, it was a way of life (What Was Jim Crow).” Under Jim Crow African-American were regulated under the status of second class citizens. The laws consisted of the following:
a. Blacks and whites were not supposed to eat together. If they did eat together, whites were to be served first, and some sort of partition was to be placed between them.
b. Blacks were not allowed to show public affection toward one another in public, especially kissing, because it offended …show more content…
Both are a racially charged caste system designed to keep blacks oppressed. Jim Crow was a more outright racism that was social accepted and views as normal, while today many people would like to believe that we live in upgraded society where race is no longer seen. This idea couldn’t be more wrong race in the eyes of polices and the justice system is all that seen and all that matters. If you are black or brown, male in particular, you will encounter the police, over insignificant things that a white person wouldn’t think twice about. America has shown very little progress in the decades following the civil rights movement, instead things may how become
After slavery black men were actually able to win their right and be treated as equal to whites for the most part. However beginning in the 1890s racism starts to take route and we get the Jim Crow Laws. In a depression racked 1890s “racism appeled to whites who feared losing their jobs to blacks (Steward).” This fear began a racial caste system known as the Jim Crow Laws “was more than a series of rigid anti-black laws, it was a way of life (What Was Jim Crow).” Under Jim Crow African-American were regulated under the status of second class citizens. The laws consisted of the following:
a. Blacks and whites were not supposed to eat together. If they did eat together, whites were to be served first, and some sort of partition was to be placed between them.
b. Blacks were not allowed to show public affection toward one another in public, especially kissing, because it offended …show more content…
Both are a racially charged caste system designed to keep blacks oppressed. Jim Crow was a more outright racism that was social accepted and views as normal, while today many people would like to believe that we live in upgraded society where race is no longer seen. This idea couldn’t be more wrong race in the eyes of polices and the justice system is all that seen and all that matters. If you are black or brown, male in particular, you will encounter the police, over insignificant things that a white person wouldn’t think twice about. America has shown very little progress in the decades following the civil rights movement, instead things may how become