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Assignment - Mass Criminalization of Black Americans Question
Instructions - Read the required text then answer the four questions below. Be sure to clearly number each of your answers.
Text: Hinton, E., & Cook, D. (2021). 'The Mass Criminalization of Black Americans: A Historical Overview' in Annual Review of Criminology, 4, 261-286.
What is the central thesis of Michelle Alexander's highly impactful book The New Jim Crow; Mass Incarceration in the Era of Colorblindness (2010)?
After the emancipation of enslaved people in 1865, legislators across southern states enacted a series of laws know as the Black Codes. Briefly describe both the purpose and effects of these laws.
High rates of arrest and incarceration of black people in American history (and today) has established what historian Khalil Muhammad terms a "statistical discourse" in the public imagination. Briefly explain what is meant by this term.
In their conclusion, Hinton and Cook suggest that while there is a substantial scholarly literature on the history of the criminalization of black Americans, there are connected areas of future research that remain less explored. What are these topic areas, and why is it especially important to study them in our present political moment?