Blog Post #5: Final Thoughts
Hello readers! This is my fifth and final blog post about The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander. Since my last post I have finished the book. It has been a very revealing book and makes me wonder about the future of systemic racism. It has been disheartening but very educational and very relevant to my English class's current race unit as well as events and debates that are happening currently. This post will be a wrapping-up of the book but at the same time I will be discussing the question of if systemic racism through mass incarceration really is the "new Jim Crow". "Saying that mass incarceration is the New Jim Crow can leave a misimpression. The parallels between the two systems of control are striking, to say the least--in both, we find racial opportunism by politicians, legalized discrimination, political disenfranchisement, exclusion of blacks from juries, stigmatization, the closing of courthouse doors, racial segregation, and the symbolic production o...