Racial Critiques of Mass Incarceration: Beyond the New Jim Crow

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Racial Critiques of Mass Incarceration: Beyond the New Jim Crow
Introduction
I. A Brief History of the New Jim Crow
II. The Value of the Jim Crow Analogy
III. Obscuring History: The Birth of Mass Incarceration
IV. Obscuring Black Support for Punitive Crime Policy
V. Ignoring Violence
VI. Obscuring Class
VII. Overlooking Race
VIII. Diminishing History: The Old Jim Crow
Conclusion
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James Forman, Jr.

Excerpted from: James Forman, Jr., Racial Critiques of Mass Incarceration: Beyond the New Jim Crow, 87 New York University Law Review 21 ((April, 2012)(194 Foot notes omitted)

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