{"product":{"product_id":"1595586431","title":"The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness","price":"16.72","image_url":"https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/510+VWiyU7L._SL500_.jpg","url":"https://www.amazon.com/dp/1595586431"},"comments":[{"body":"\u0026gt; people get thrown in jail for unpaid fines/fees and other minor violations in 13 states,\r\n\r\nSo is this a space where we can discuss the excellent book [The New Jim Crow](https://www.amazon.com/New-Jim-Crow-Incarceration-Colorblindness/dp/1595586431) because it seems highly relevant.","subreddit_name":"bestoflegaladvice","author":"ALoudMouthBaby"},{"body":"For a deeper understanding of the War on Drugs as it pertains to the U.S. putting more of its citizens in prison than *any other nation*: [The New Jim Crow](https://www.amazon.com/New-Jim-Crow-Incarceration-Colorblindness/dp/1595586431), by Michelle Alexander.","subreddit_name":"politics","author":"Stormlight1984"},{"body":"\u0026gt; Colton said he didn't view it racially\r\n\r\nUsing racially charged terms and then saying, \"No, I didn't mean it in a racist way,\" is the hallmark of racists (SEE: Donald Trump). No one self-identifies as a racist. They see their views as justified because they aren't against a particular race; they're against crime, poverty, drugs, etc. The main problem is, they overlook that behavior in the majority groups they belong to. White frat boys doing coke at a college party are just kids having fun, but black people doing crack in a poor neighborhood are violent criminals. Colton wouldn't have labeled a struggling white stand-up comedian as ghetto, so let's stop pretending like him calling Bill ghetto isn't racist.\r\n\r\ntl;dr Colton is a racist.\r\n\r\nEDIT: If anyone's interested in looking into this topic more, [The New Jim Crow](https://www.amazon.com/dp/1595586431/ref=sxnav_sxwds-tsp_1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER\u0026amp;pf_rd_p=3524131402\u0026amp;pd_rd_wg=gAtui\u0026amp;pf_rd_r=5A4WCH1HHRJCR7E8N2J1\u0026amp;pf_rd_s=desktop-sx-nav\u0026amp;pf_rd_t=301\u0026amp;pd_rd_i=1595586431\u0026amp;pd_rd_w=0hbyO\u0026amp;pf_rd_i=new+jim+crow\u0026amp;pd_rd_r=ed2a2602-2765-407f-aaf5-48258550a20b\u0026amp;ie=UTF8\u0026amp;qid=1522443412\u0026amp;sr=1) is a great book about how racism has evolved since the days of \"Whites Only\" water fountains and segregated schools.","subreddit_name":"survivor","author":"MattyHdot"},{"body":"There is a seedy underbelly within the federal prison system and this is one of the major issues.  For starters I highly encourage people to read *The New Jim Crow* by Michelle Alexander [(Amazon)](https://www.amazon.com/New-Jim-Crow-Incarceration-Colorblindness/dp/1595586431)\r\n\r\nStates and private state contractors rake in loads of money on prison labor, often at the expense of *normal citizens* who would both work these jobs, and contribute financially from their income.\r\n\r\n[edit: careful, if you don't pay attention and type posts they'll come out retarded, like mine was - fixed]","subreddit_name":"news","author":"RoyalDecrees"},{"body":"Yeah but he's black. [The US criminal justice system was literally made for black men.](https://www.amazon.com/New-Jim-Crow-Incarceration-Colorblindness/dp/1595586431/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8\u0026amp;qid=1538434018\u0026amp;sr=1-1\u0026amp;pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65\u0026amp;keywords=the+new+jim+crow\u0026amp;dpPl=1\u0026amp;dpID=510%2BVWiyU7L\u0026amp;ref=plSrch)","subreddit_name":"soccer","author":"Trimblco"},{"body":"Prisons are needed but yeah all our current prison system does is provide slave labor, maintain segregation and class divides, and make better/more fucked up criminals \r\n\r\nBut that's like... a whole discussion worthy of a book\r\n\r\n ...[\"The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness\"](https://www.amazon.com/New-Jim-Crow-Incarceration-Colorblindness/dp/1595586431) by Michelle Alexander, a civil rights advocate and legal scholar, is an amazing resource if you want to see how much of the American law system is based around maintaining class divides and segregation.","subreddit_name":"PublicFreakout","author":"BuddaMuta"},{"body":"\u0026gt;Working for a dairy company doesn’t require an advanced set of skills in  which qualifications would come into question, so using that as an  analogy to modern day conversations over affirmative action stances,  which revolve entirely around jobs that require advanced degrees or  college admittance race rates, isn’t legit. \r\n\r\nThere's no 'analogy' being made at all -- only a description of King's position and it's irreconcilability with what Hughes' claims it is. Moreover, you're just factually wrong here:\r\n\r\n\u0026gt;Their requests include jobs, advertising in **Negro  newspapers**, and depositing funds in **Negro financial institutions**. \r\n\r\n...\r\n\r\n\u0026gt;you’ll hear leftist activists claiming it’s just like the days of slavery or Jim Crow or MLK. \r\n\r\nSure, no doubt. Every semester when my students read [*The New Jim Crow*](https://www.amazon.com/New-Jim-Crow-Incarceration-Colorblindness/dp/1595586431) and I ask them what the argument of the book is, at least one of them will say something like \"Racism is just as bad as ever\" or \"Mass incarceration works just like Jim Crow\" or something similar. Of course, the book doesn't actually say that, and in fact says something directly contradictory: that each of these is a *distinct* racial caste system with its own set(s) of philosophical rationalizations, political formations, material consequences, etc. etc. etc. I do my best to patiently walk them through this argument, but I'm sure some of them still walk away with the mistaken impression (and, obviously, I'm not in the room every time someone outside of my classes reads the book).\r\n\r\nSaying that \"nothing has changed\" isn't just incorrect; frankly, I think it's an insult to the folks who spilled their blood, sweat, and tears to fight for change. I fully agree with you here.","subreddit_name":"samharris","author":"JR-Oppie"},{"body":"You desperately need to read this book:  https://www.amazon.com/New-Jim-Crow-Incarceration-Colorblindness/dp/1595586431  \r\n\r\nThe entire system (the drug war and tough on crime laws) were basically designed to relegate black people and political opponents into a lower caste (the \"felon\" caste) and keep them there (by stripping them of rights and ability to work).  \r\n\r\nIt's literally Jim Crow redesigned to meet constitutionality tests - i.e. color blindness.  It sweeps up everyone indiscriminately, and unjustly - but it affects colored people disproportionately because... hey it turns out that's what it was meant to do in the first place.","subreddit_name":"politics","author":"DoodleBungus"},{"body":"Eh, while I appreciate your reasoned approach to the issue, I think you’re misrepresenting the severity of the issue of racial disparities in policing. I can’t recommend [The New Jim Crow](https://www.amazon.com/New-Jim-Crow-Incarceration-Colorblindness/dp/1595586431) highly enough as a meticulously researched, data-packed analysis of the issue and its historical precedents.","subreddit_name":"PoliticalHumor","author":"imVINCE"},{"body":"\u0026gt;Every semester when my students read [*The New Jim Crow*](https://www.amazon.com/New-Jim-Crow-Incarceration-Colorblindness/dp/1595586431) and I ask them what the argument of the book is, at least one of them will say something like \"Racism is just as bad as ever\" or \"Mass incarceration works just like Jim Crow\" or something similar. \r\n\r\nNot sure what kind of course you teach, but I'm curious what other materials you assign to your students in this course on the topic of race and mass incarceration.","subreddit_name":"samharris","author":"quethefanfare"},{"body":"Stopping political information primarily helps maintain the status quo.\r\n\r\nMost of the problems that have led to civil unrest amongst the white poor and minorities of all income brackets have been going on for generations but generally the wealthy, older, Protestant, white controlled news wouldn't talk about the subjects. Or when they would mention them, they would purposely paint incidents in a way the non-white, and/or, non-wealthy, and/or non-Protestant, members of whatever story as the villains.\r\n\r\nI mean, for a clear example, just go read up on serial killers and research the concept of the \"less dead.\" Almost every serial killer who has a high body count got there because cops simply do not investigate certain types of victims and the media does not cover that same grouping. Poor, minority, LGBTQ+, and \"ungodly\" professions like sex work, are almost always the majority of victims. \r\n\r\nEven with best selling books, [such as the fantastic New Jim Crow](https://www.amazon.com/New-Jim-Crow-Incarceration-Colorblindness/dp/1595586431), plenty of people in this country simply do not know just how widespread or long term these types of disparities in media/police coverage are because the media does not report on it. \r\n\r\nYou're inherently making a political statement of \"this doesn't matter\" when you refuse to cover something. \r\n\r\nr/videos could have easily made an auto-comment on \"political\" videos that stated something to the effect of \"remember videos of incidents only show one perspective from a very limited time frame and point of view. Further more, remember how easily videos and be edited and manipulated before you form opinions\"\r\n\r\nInstead, they just chose to be a part of the problem that is causing civil unrest in the first place.","subreddit_name":"PublicFreakout","author":"BuddaMuta"},{"body":"I guess. Something kind of trolling about this. I mean, you have a lot of pretty uninformed views and you're not coming at this in an open way but with your views in bold, backed up by really questionable alt-right stuff or your own supposed experiences. \r\n\r\nSo: recent high school grad confirmed; black not confirmed.\r\n\r\nIf you are for real, though, I would suggest reading the new jim crow and then writing again.\r\n\r\nlink: https://www.amazon.com/New-Jim-Crow-Incarceration-Colorblindness/dp/1595586431\r\n\r\ngood luck.","subreddit_name":"law","author":"thefollowingcustomer"},{"body":"?\r\n\r\nYou're comparing some innocuous shit that Ozzy Osbourne did to the complicated nature of rap music that reflects (as well as glorifies) the perceived moral shortcomings or cultural failures of African Americans mired in inter-generational poverty.\r\n\r\nAre you originally from the U.S.? Did you not learn about destructive government practices like redlining and the War on Drugs (you should read [The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness](https://www.amazon.com/New-Jim-Crow-Incarceration-Colorblindness/dp/1595586431) by legal scholar Michelle Alexander).\r\n\r\nThis is the problem I have with white rap fans that passively consume this music while being completely oblivious to the real circumstances that produce said music.\r\n\r\nI'll just leave this quotation from Cornel West below for you think about:\r\n\r\n\u0026gt;\"American mainstream is obsessed with black creative genius – be it music, walk, style – but at the same time puts a low priority on the black social misery which is the very context out of which that creativity flows.\"","subreddit_name":"hiphop101","author":"imaginary-places"},{"body":"god i hate when morons co-opt language that they don’t understand to make themselves feel smart.\r\n\r\n[god forbid someone equated Jim Crow to modern systemic racism, it might just become one of the most well known sociological texts of the last twenty years](https://www.amazon.com/New-Jim-Crow-Incarceration-Colorblindness/dp/1595586431/ref=nodl_)\r\n\r\nAnd while you’re at it, read some Coates, Ture, Baldwin, Hughes, Jimenez, Ngozi-Adichie. \r\n\r\nEducate yourself before you make this big a fool of yourself in public","subreddit_name":"SelfAwarewolves","author":"AutisticNipples"},{"body":"It definitely is a legal thing in America. Do you want to read one of the most recommended books on this topic? \r\n\r\nI know you are going to keep on mocking me so there is no point to engage you further, but this book might be informative for you if you are interested in American history and contemporary politics. \r\n\r\nhttps://www.amazon.com/New-Jim-Crow-Incarceration-Colorblindness/dp/1595586431","subreddit_name":"europe","author":"PreOrange"}]}