The New Jim Crow [electronic resource].
Record details
- ISBN: 9781595588197
- ISBN: 1595588191
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (447 p.)
- Publisher: New York : New Press, the, 2012.
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Formatted Contents Note: | Title Page; Praise; Dedication; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 -- The Rebirth of Caste; The Birth of Slavery; The Death of Slavery; The Birth of Jim Crow; The Death of Jim Crow; The Birth of Mass Incarceration; 2 -- The Lockdown; Rules of the Game; Unreasonable Suspicion; Just Say No; Poor Excuse; Kissing Frogs; It Pays to Play; Waging War; Finders Keepers; The Shakedown; Legal Misrepresentation; Bad Deal; Time Served; The Prison Label; 3 -- The Color of Justice; Picking and Choosing--The Role of Discretion; Closing the Courthouse Doors-- McCleskey v. Kemp -- Cracked Up--Discriminatory Sentencing in the War on DrugsCharging Ahead--Armstrong v. United States; In Defense of the All-White Jury--Purkett v. Elm; The Occupation--Policing the Enemy; Unconventional Wisdom; Hollow Hope; Race as a Factor; The End of an Era; 4 -- The Cruel Hand; Brave New World; No Place Like Home; Boxed In; The Black Box; Debtor's Prison; Let Them Eat Cake; The Silent Minority; The Pariahs; Eerie Silence; Passing (Redux); Gangsta Love; The Minstrel Show; The Antidote; 5 -- The New Jim Crow; States of Denial; How It Works; Nothing New?; Mapping the Parallels -- The Limits of the AnalogyFork in the Road; 6 -- The Fire This Time; Rethinking Denial--Or, Where Are Civil Rights Advocates When You Need Them?; Tinkering Is for Mechanics, Not Racial-Justice Advocates; Let's Talk About Race--Resisting the Temptation of Colorblind Advocacy; Against Colorblindness; The Racial Bribe--Let's Give It Back; Obama--the Promise and the Peril; All of Us or None; Notes; Index; Copyright Page. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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