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The New Jim Crow: Racial Inequalities by api-339610059 is a document available to read on EtoBox.
The document summarizes The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander. It discusses how the book focuses on racial inequalities and disproportionate targeting of African Americans in the criminal justice system. Laws and policies have rendered people of color as second class citizens. The War on Drugs has led to high incarceration rates of black men that parallel their lack of opportunities during Jim Crow. The book uses extensive sources to credibly argue that mass incarceration has become a new system of racial
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