Ryan Moore

An Analysis of Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow

Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

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Produktbeschreibung

The United States has the world's largest prison population, with more than two million behind bars. Alexander says this is mainly due to America's 'war on drugs,' launched in 1982. In The New Jim Crow, she explains how this government initiative has led to America's black citizens being imprisoned on a colossal scale.

Produktdetails

• The Macat Library
• Verlag: Macat International Limited
• Seitenzahl: 100
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 126mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 130g
• ISBN-13: 9781912128877
• ISBN-10: 191212887X
• Artikelnr.: 48874001

Autorenporträt

Dr Ryan Moore holds PhDs in both Sociology and Cultural Analysis from the University of California, San Diego. He has taught at universities across America and is the author of Sells Like Teen Spirit: Music, Youth Culture, and Social Crisis (New York: NYU Press, 2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Ways in to the Text Who was Michelle Alexander? What does The New Jim Crow:
Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Say? Why does The New Jim
Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Matter? Section 1:
Influences Module 1: The Author and the Historical Context Module 2:
Academic Context Module 3: The Problem Module 4: The Author's Contribution
Section 2: Ideas Module 5: Main Ideas Module 6: Secondary Ideas Module 7:
Achievement Module 8: Place in the Author's Work Section 3: Impact Module
9: The First Responses Module 10: The Evolving Debate Module 11: Impact and
Influence Today Module 12: Where Next? Glossary of Terms People Mentioned
in the Text Works Cited