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The New Jim Crow_ Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness - Michelle Alexander [173]

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Emanuel, Rahm

The Emerging Republican Majority (Phillips)

employment: and ex-criminal offenders; joblessness and violent crime rates; manufacturing jobs and deindustrialization; the “negative credential” and system of state-sponsored stratification; service-sector jobs; unemployment/joblessness

Erlichman, John

Erwin, Sam, Jr.

Farrakhan, Louis

fathers, black

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), antidrug funding

Federalism

Fields, C. Virginia

Fifteenth Amendment

The Fire Next Time (Baldwin)

Flavor of Love (VH1)

Florida v. Bostick

Forman, James, Jr.

Fourteenth Amendment; and crack sentencing; and death penalty sentencing; and jury exclusion; and police traffic stops; and racially discriminatory law enforcement

Fourth Amendment

Freedmen’s Bureau

Frye, Marilyn

Futterman, Craig

gang databases

“gangsta culture,”

gender gap (black men and women)

genocide and War on Drugs

Gideon v. Wainwright

globalization

Goldwater, Barry

Goodwill Industries

Great Depression

Guinier, Lani

Haldeman, H.R.

Harlem riots (1964)

Harmelin v. Michigan

Harwood, Richard

Hill, Barbara

Hininger, Damon

Hispanics/Latinos: prison admissions for drug offenses; rates of illegal drug use

homelessness

Housing and Urban Development (HUD)

housing discrimination

human rights approach

Human Rights Watch

Hurley, Ora Lee

In re Gault (1967)

incarceration. See mass incarceration system

indentured servitude

indifference, racial

inner-city economic collapse

Irving, Lawrence

Jackson, Jesse

Jefferson, Thomas

“Jena 6,”

Jim Crow system: birth of; black cooperation with; and Civil Rights Movement; death of; and Supreme Court; voting rights and disenfranchisement; and World War II, 36. See also mass incarceration and Jim Crow (parallels/differences)

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Johnson, Sheri Lynn

Johnson, Willie

Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education

juries: and felon exclusion; and peremptory strikes; and prosecutors’ discretion; and “stereotypically black” defendants; Supreme Court rulings governing jury selection

Justice Department, U.S.; Bureau of Statistics; report in impact of bias in criminal justice system; and street crime

Justice Policy Institute

Karlan, Pamela

Kennedy, Justice Anthony

Kennedy, John F.

Kerlikowske, Gil

Kilty, Keith

King, Martin Luther

King, Martin Luther, Jr.; and affirmative action; call for complete restructuring of society; and civil rights lawyers/legal cases; on colorblindness and indifference; and human rights approach; and Poor People’s Movement; and Rosa Parks

Klarman, Michael

Kraska, Peter

Ku Klux Klan

Ku Klux Klan Acts

Lambright, Nshombi

Law & Order (television)

law enforcement. See drug-law enforcement and racial discrimination; police/police departments and drug-law enforcement

Lawrence, Charles

Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area

Leadership Conference on Civil Rights

Lee, William

Levine, Harry

liberal philosophy of race relations (Reconstruction era)

Lincoln, Abraham

Lockyer v. Andrade

Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD): databases for “gang-related” activity; and lethal chokeholds

Los Angeles Times

Loury, Glenn

Lyons, Adolph

Maclin, Tracey

Madison, James

Malcolm X

mandatory minimum sentencing; and Anti-Drug Abuse Act; and plea bargaining; reform efforts; and Supreme Court

March on Washington for Jobs and Economic Freedom (1963)

marijuana: and deaths; decriminalization of; felony possession and arrests; and mandatory sentencing guidelines; use by Clinton/Obama; and voting rights; white middle class users; white/black student users

Marshall, Prentiss

Marshall, Stanley

Marshall, Justice Thurgood

mass incarceration and Jim Crow (parallels/ differences); and argument that race has always influenced the criminal justice system; black support for “get tough” policies on crime; collective denial; differences /limits of the analogy;

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