Racial Residential Segregation: The New Jim Crow Laws

Burch, Traci. "The Old Jim Crow: Racial Residential Segregation and Neighborhood Imprisonment." Law & Policy 36.3 (2014): 223-55. Web.

This article shows how the days of the “Jim Crow Laws” were never really repealed but altered in social standings. By giving an in-depth look on how racial residential segregation in North Carolina affected the outcome of individuals residing in a county that is less segregated then that of a county that is more segregated. With individuals living in counties more segregated were more likely to be incarcerated, while individuals living in counties less segregated were not. Dr. Traci Burch, whom is an award winning author who holds appointments as Associate Professor in Political Science at Northwestern University and Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation, finds that evidence suggests that racial residential segregation is related to the concentration of imprisonment. Dr. Burch also suggests that scholars should continue to pay attention to the traditional elements of racial hierarchy that continue to structure the life chances of African Americans. This article will help my argument that we are living in the days of “The New Jim Crow Laws.”

Anderson, Michelle.

"Cities inside Out: Race, Poverty, and Exclusion at the Urban Fringe." UCLA Law Review 55.5 (2008): 1095. Print

This article’s intent is to show how urban communities that surround central cities lack much need resources. Due to geographical surroundings that provide little resources like jobs and other means for economic stability. Thus requiring individuals that reside in such location require the assistant of the government. The author Michelle Wilde Anderson, a public law scholar and practitioner focused on state and local government, including urban policy, city planning, local democracy, and public finance. Found that during her searched that induvial whom live in the every community that qualified as an unincorporated urban area were predominantly African American or Latino, even though the definition is notably race-neutral. With that fact this article helps support a sense of segregation in communities still to this day. Which result with higher incarnation rate among African Americans and Latinos than whites.

Alexander, Michelle. "The New Jim Crow." The American Prospect 22.1 (2011): A19-21. Web.

Michelle Alexander explains how the criminal-justice system today is being used to associate criminality with the people of color and then engage in the prejudiced practices we supposable left behind. This article explores how we live in the so called “colorblindness era”, yet we are still blind to the fact that we treat criminal as we would treat African Americans during the “Jim Crow” days. Michelle Alexander, who is an associate professor of law at Ohio State University and a civil rights advocate, finds that the “war on drugs” was single greatest contributor to the mass incarceration in the United States. This article helps shed light on why “The Jim Crow Laws” are not gone but revamped into “New Jim Crow Laws” called the “War on Drugs.”

Western, Bruce, and Christopher Wildeman. “The Black Family and Mass Incarceration”. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 621 (2009): 221–242. Web.

This article also looks at mass incarceration in the United States.

By taking a look at the political and economic effects that aided the mass incarceration in the United Sates in the late 1990s. Stating the downfall of jobs and the new appointed laws that carry longer sentences for drug offenders were main factors. Giving light that all are effect by these new factors but Male minorities, with low-status, and poor education are more likely to end up in jail then their counterpart. This article helps tie in all factors for why “The Jim Crow Laws” still exist today, just renamed and not subjected to one race. Both Bruce Western and Christopher Wildeman concluded that incarceration is a cycle that affects not only the person in prison but their families as

well.