Examples Of Racial And Injustice By Gonzalez Van Cleve

The racial and injustices different races have to deal with in America. Being black and hispanic in America can be unfair. Dealing with police brutality, mass incarceration, racial profiling are things that describe what some black and hispanics deal with on a day to day basis. Author Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve goes into depth of how hispanics and people of color are treated in the court system of the United states. Gonzalez Van Cleve opens the doors of the courthouse and takes us for a journey. She describes the way judges, prosecutors, and sheriffs act down in the courtroom. From judges falling asleep to the racial abuse that black and hispanic folks are put through. Gonzalez Van Cleve was effective using rhetorical devices such as logo, ethos,

69% of African Americans were convicted. 84% of state attorneys were white and 74% of judges were also white. The Cook County jail is the largest jail in the nation, housing around ten thousand inmates. “The vast majority, 67.3 percent, of those admitted to the jail are young African American males between the ages of twenty-one and thirty from Chicago’s South Side and West Side— creating a perversely convenient arrangement whereby the jail is closest to its target population.” (Van Cleve. 19). Ninety six acres of land with more than half of the jail being incarcerated African

Through the chapter she used many experts' notes and summary of what they had written but she didn’t name these experts. For example, one defense attorney explained; “[What] really shocked the hell out of me when I started was, I’d go back in the lockup and everybody’s black. Now that doesn’t shock me anymore but that still shocks my students… then, I was just shocked by the way people were treated. By “people,” I mean victims, defendants, defendants' families.”(Van Cleve 27). She had many explanations and stories she used but she only named two experts in this chapter. One being sociologist Armando Lara-Millan (2014) and Javier Auyero (2012). A lot of the people who gave testaments were referred to as defense attorneys and court