Why Can’t All Bodies be Different, but Fought For the Same?

kparker17 — Mon, 28 Mar 2016 17:14:38 +0000

In her book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander (2010) spells out the issues of the master narrative, which has, since the abolition of slavery and strategic implementation of the war on drugs and mass incarceration, legitimized and hidden from the American people what locking up thousands and thousands of Black bodies has done. The emergence of crack cocaine in impoverished streets and mandatory minimum sentencing laws covered up ...

prison industrial complex – Contemporary Racism

Why Can’t All Bodies be Different, but Fought For the Same?