The whites thought that sooner or later if we let them vote that they’re going to take over. The Jim Crow Laws system stopped the blacks from voting. That caught the Civil Right leaders and that brought attention to Mississippi. That made it acceptable for that 7% of black people to vote. In Document B which was a “Freedom Summer Pamphlet.”
13th is a 2016 documentary film that discusses discrimination, mass incarceration, and law enforcement in the context of African-Americans in the United States. Its title emanates from the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution which states that slavery and any form of forced service is prohibited except in the situation of being convicted for a crime. Speakers are those that condemn the criminal justice system, and are pushing for equality among races. 13th touches on multiple contemporary problems which stem from America’s history, and aims to educate audiences on the effects and impacts these have caused to the black community.
Ana DuVernay’s documentary, “13th” explores and brings light to how the 13th amendment makes it unconstitutional to be held a slave with the exception of being labeled as a criminal. The documentary explains that due to the language used in the 13th amendment, the rights that black people fought to have during the Civil War can be stripped away from them once labeled a criminal. The film states that 1 in every 17 white males are incarcerated during their lifetime, while 1 in every 3 black males are incarcerated during their lifetime. Statistics like these act as evidence for the racial injustice and inequity that is still found in our police and prison system today. Once labeled a criminal, your rights to vote, get a job, take out loans, etc.
According to Ava DuVernay who explored the history of racial inequality throughout the engaging documentary, “13th”, our country continues on to having challenges when it comes to the matter of race, assumption of crime, and discrimination between white men and black men. A large number of african americans have been denied
African-Americans are disproportionately imprisoned by discriminatory laws and deprived of their civil rights by our supposed democracy. This country’s criminal justice system still has not escaped the influence of racial prejudice. The criminal injustice system has transformed enslavement and institutionalized the violence and horror of previous generations, as slaves are no longer held in captivity on plantations, but rather in
In light of my freshman year summer reading assignment of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander, I found intergroup theory to be an intriguing solution to Alexander’s assertion. Intergroup theory proposes that both organization groups and identity groups affect one’s intergroup relations and thereby shape one’s cognitive formations (Ott, Parks, Simpson, 2008). Alexander exchanges her views on the correlation between race related issues specific to African American males and mass incarceration in the United States. Further, Alexander goes on to provide statistics to show how African American males are predisposed to mass incarceration. I feel the solutions to the problems Alexander raise in her
Slavery, Jim Crow, and the New Jim Crow all share the same idea, white supremacy. Slavery held control over blacks through physical ownership, as well as economic exploitation. Similarly, Jim Crow ensured that there was legal separation and disenfranchisement between blacks and whites. The New Jim Crow follows in the footsteps of the other two, disproportionally targeting blacks as “criminals” and incarcerating them. The act of incarceration impacts blacks, providing them with a criminal record, making it difficult for them to grow economically and socially, thus leaving them at a disadvantage.
While I was viewing these articles, I really started to get angry inside. I understood all this exists, but reading it over and over again brings me back to remember how serious this situation is. Many of these topics was covered in the book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, but these articles are bringing up topics that I never even considered. Such as, in the Silverstein’s article it said “Discrimination has been shown to increase the risk of stress, depression, the common cold, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, breast cancer, and mortality. ”(Silverstein)
Aditi Patel Representing race Blockson Project 12/11/17. For the Blockson Project I found really interesting book “The new Jim Crow : mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness” by Michelle Alexander. I had this book for my other class and when I was reading it, I found this book boring and I thought that the book is disturbing.
5th Hour Cause and Effect Essay Jim Crow laws The Jim Crow laws were unfair and unjust to all African-Americans by making them unequal. The Jim Crow laws are laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States. It used the term separate but equal, even though conditions for African Americans were always worst than their white counterparts. They could not eat at the same restaurant as white people, they could not used the same restrooms, and they couldn't even use the same drinking fountain.
Despite some legal victories, African Americans were yet again met with unprovoked legal retribution. A new set of Black Codes in the 1880s and 1890s refreshed the idea of “Jim Crow”. This led to a nation drunk on the idea of
Just four years after the first juvenile court was established, W.E.B. DuBois, in 1903, wrote that the problem of the 20th century was the color line (DuBois, 2005). More than a century later, in 2012, Michelle Alexander wrote in her book “The New Jim Crow” that she had somewhat reluctantly come to the conclusion that a racial caste system still exists in the United States and is responsible for the disproportionate number of minorities in the criminal justice system (Alexander, 2012). Somewhat more than halfway through the 19th century, Jefferson Davis made a statement that clearly shows the problem in a stark manner. In his book tracing racist ideas in America, Ibram X. Kendi recalls what Jefferson Davis, who would go on to become the president
The New Jim Crow give me a new perspective to look at the racism in the United States. Before reading it, I knew that black people are being mistreated in the United States, but I don’t know that government uses its power to control that black people’s life. I thought the election of President Obama means the end of racism in the United States, and apparently I am wrong. By reading this book, I realized the segregation changed its form to appear in today’s society and this new form of segregation turn most people into colorblindness. We don’t see the segregation is happened in United States because we don’t experience what black people have experienced.
In high school, I never paid much attention to history class. Though I remember learning about two distinctive terms, only because I thought they sounded funny: de jure and de facto segregation. De jure segregation, is segregation by law where as de facto segregation, is segregation that is done subtly by society through habit. Though de jure segregation is hard to come across now, de facto segregation is emanate. Simply put, discrimination still exists in disguise.
The Jim Crow laws claimed to be “Separate but equal”, they were anything but. The laws separated the blacks from the whites. They had separate stores, schools, and even drinking fountains. The Jim Crow laws separated the blacks from the whites, made life harder for the blacks, and when they were separated their stores, restaurants, and other things were not equal.
