by Michelle Alexander
Alexander argues that mass incarceration has functioned as a racial caste system analogous to Jim Crow, using the War on Drugs to legally strip Black Americans of voting rights, employment, housing, and civic standing. She contends that color-blind rhetoric masks the racialized design and outcomes of modern criminal justice.
In this collection, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness references 3 other books and is cited by 2 other books.
It draws on The Lessons of History, The Lucifer Effect and Nudge.
It’s picked up by Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor and Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code.
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Engages Will Durant's Lessons of History-style long-view argument that dominant groups redesign systems of control when older forms collapse, applied to Reconstruction and the drug war
Draws on Zimbardo's Lucifer Effect research on dehumanization and situational power to explain routine police and prosecutorial conduct inside the drug war
Engages Thaler and Sunstein's Nudge framework on implicit bias and default rules to explain how facially neutral plea-bargaining architecture produces racialized outcomes
The exact passages where other authors bring up “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness” and what they take from it.
Eubanks explicitly extends Alexander's The New Jim Crow framework to the digital realm, arguing that automated systems create a digital poorhouse analogous to the mass incarceration system Alexander documented for racial minorities
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Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poorby Virginia Eubanks
Benjamin's central concept of the New Jim Code directly references and extends Alexander's The New Jim Crow framework, arguing that algorithmic systems constitute a new mechanism of racialized social control analogous to mass incarceration
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