New Jim Crow Thesis

Michelle Alexander. The new Jim Crow: Mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness. New York: The New Press, 2010.

1. Michelle Alexander book purpose is to expose the structural racism against the African American community and brown men face. This structural racism is expressed by the state in mass incarceration of African American and other color males and thus crates a new racial caste system. The method the state used to make this new comprehensive, excellently disguised system of racialized social control was done by the War on Drugs. And Alexander reason for the book to promulgate discussion on the racial inequalities in society.

2. Michelle Alexander thesis is that the modern American state has created a new

The organization of the books starts with the Jim Crow era and proceeds to the current day. The start of the book is to introduce to the reader the racialize social controls the state has done in the past. She goes to the on drag crime policies. Then she goes to the justice’s systems is racist, and that the individual crime rate by races does explain why the people of color are so well representative in the prison system. The fourth chapter she decides how the state cruelly uses social control to force racial minorities into this new Jim Crow caste systems. The fifth chapter is the parallels she found between Jim Crow and today mass incarceration in the age of color blindness. The sixth chapter she is acknowledging the New Jim Crow and what is means for future racial justices. The organizational logic of the book benefits the Alexander claim of the current American structural racist against Blacks and other minorities people of color. She uses the past to inform the reader of the problem that she seeks to convince the readers is happening in our day. The organization allows the reader to infer the state is racist against racial minorities without proving the state is actually

Alexander purpose is to inform as many readers as possible and have them to agree with her argumentation. I think most people of the political/ ideological left would wholeheartedly agree with Alexander thesis. But I do not believe many it any one on the political/ ideological right would go along with the book thesis. I think this book is a smashing success in regards to causing discussion about the relationship that African-American and other people of color to American policing. I this work would surely be a handy volume to political movement like Black Lives Matters and other racial justice groups. But the thesis that American policing is structural racist against African-American and other racial minorities does not hold much wright to me. Because when she used the rate of drug use among youths that was roughly the same to suggest that higher rate of African-American in jail was caused by ‘structural racism” of the State she omitted an important fact about racial groups connections to gangs. And when she gave us her story we learn that she already had her answer to her own question. I think Michelle Alexander book is not much than confirmation bias from a scientific