Essays on Jim Crow Laws

Segregation can be defined as the action of setting someone or something apart from other people. It can also be an enforced separation of different racial groups in a country, community, or establishment. This paper will allow one to see the ideas C. Vann Woodward shared on segregation, reconstruction, and the mixing of two races….

As Elie Wiesel once stated, “I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented” (“Elie Wiesel Quote”). Michelle Alexander a highly claimed civil rights lawyer stepped up and opened a…

I think the reading choice I am going to focus on this week involves The New Jim Crow, a book written by Michelle Alexander. To me, this is one of the more intriguing readings we have read this semester and has allowed me to dig deeper into the age of color blindness that exists within…

Racism is a hot topic in America for many different reasons. It does not matter that slavery was abolished more than a century ago. It does not matter that over fifty years ago segregation laws were made illegal to enforce. Racial tension has remained at the forefront. It seem we are seeing more racial tension…

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander is known as one of the most important books of our time. This is a book that makes the reader appreciate the magnitude of the crisis faced by communities of color as a result of mass incarceration. As noted, this book is not for everyone. It’s for people…

The reading, The New Jim Crow (New Press, 2012) by Michelle Alexander, is a revealing look into the criminal justice system and how it reflects on African Americans. Michelle Alexander, who is an attorney specializing in civil rights, points out how unfair our legal system is against African Americans. Alexander states that “a criminal freed…

When an ex-offender is released from prison, they know very little about the world in which they are about to encounter. In Michelle Alexander’s book The New Jim Crow, she examines the world in which former-offenders confront upon being released from the United States criminal justice system, as well as its continued role in hindering…

Jim Crow laws were prejudice laws that were established in the 19th century that helped create segregation between white and black people. To consider the restrictions that were told in the article as a close comparison to that time is somewhat a major over-exaggeration. The restrictions may be unnecessary but in that time shaking hands…

Michelle Alexander author of  The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness investigates the repressive subject of sociological devices as seen through the eyes of color. Alexander, a civil rights advocate and graduate from law school covers a lot of material in her new book that entails how society has cultivated from…

At the Jim crow Era, for free black men and women, they began to acquire some of the power resources to enter the mainstream society which dominated by Anglo majority. It was the competitive period between the blacks and whites. But when the North gradually compromised to the south because of the presidential elections, the…