![]() The “new Jim Crow” is a largely post-industrial phenomenon. ![]() The second hitch is that the Jim Crow system was part of a productionist regime dedicated to the mass exploitation of Black labor still yoked primarily to cotton. The first difficulty is that the real historical Jim Crow regime of the late 19 th and early 20 th century was specific to the South whereas the contemporary racist mass incarceration and criminal branding regime is nationwide. There were three key problems, however, with professor Alexander’s use of the term “Jim Crow” to describe that terrible system. ![]() Michelle Alexander’s book The New Jim Crow is properly understood as a classic text on and against the regime of racist mass incarceration and criminal- (felony-) marking that arose and became deeply entrenched in the United States during the last third of the previous century. ![]()
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