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African Americans In William Faulkner's The New Jim Crow

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This book has open has opened my eyes to many things that I didn’t know. The New Jim Crow is a book that looks back on the event that happened thousands of years ago. The book deals with racisms, laws, ad imprisonment. This book allowed one to have different views about African Americans. Everyone has a voice being an Africa American it took a while for their voice to be heard. Upon reading this book, I have not heard Michelle Alexander. My expectation for the book was not high. When a person hasn’t heard of a previous author, there an expectation is really not that good. However, that has changed when I stared to read it. My thoughts on reading the book it portrayed African Americans as not having a voice in society. I believe that the …show more content…

There are a lot of African American males without jobs due to their criminal background. Receiving government assistance can be beneficial for a family. However, disastrous if someone found out that an individual with a felony is living with them they can lose everything. It’s very hard for a criminal to find a job, a place to live knowing if they don’t have family that is willing to take them in. Everywhere that these individual turned they couldn’t get away from it. Only because, it was on School application, Housing applications, Welfare applications. The question always remains the same “Have you ever been convicted of a felony or crime”. Jobs did go out on limp and gives these individual a job or a trial period, it’s only a few that …show more content…

There were white people that was slaves, they was just take cheaper wages, and overseeing African American in the cotton field. My reaction to reading this book was not very good. I didn’t go in reading this book with a clear mindset. If I had did some research prior to reading this book? My reactions would have been different. Even though, I heard of the name Jim Crow in a previous history and social work class. I really never thought it would go into that much detail. However, after reading the book and understanding the book my actins now are totally different. I actually had to read the book twice for me to actually really get the full understanding. Even though, African American did endure hardship, we stuck through it and made it work. My personal reactions are why society always portrays Africana American as the black

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I feel like there were more problems than the book mentioned but the main problems were still there. They did not want the slaves to be free and they did not want black men to gain equal rights as white men because the white men in the South believed that black men should not be considered equal to white men. The book did a good job of showing the view of the South and that is important because you need to look at both sides of the argument before you make a

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The novel is a conversation between Alexander and the United States Criminal Justice system, white people, people of color; she uses the passion of an activist to talk to the people and inform them that if they care about the future, humanity, and equality, America needs to start paying attention to the lesser-known injustices and microaggressions to make a change in to end the “racial caste system” in which Americans have been living in for far too long. Alexander enhanced a complex topic by effortlessly recounting it without any elementary language or speech. Her work, while easy to comprehend, may still be hard to read for all of the driven language and the truths that she reveals about America’s past, as well as its present. While the book points out that the similarities of our current Justice system to the old Jim Crow Laws are not as stark, Alexander never points out the differences, which makes her analogy incomplete in its full comparison. This may be done for the effect to take the reader’s attention away from the dissimilarities as the United States commonly only focuses on the differences of how people of color were treated then versus now because it is certainly less extreme.

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