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Mass Incarceration and Black Oppression in America
The New Jim Crow and Liberal Reformism
http://www.icl-fi.org/english/wv/1008/new_jim_crow.html
Publisher: Workers Vanguard
Date Written: 14/09/2012
Year Published: 2012
Resource Type: Article
The singular focus on mass incarceration as the embodiment of racial oppression has a purpose: it poses the fight for black freedom as a matter of "dismantling" that system, much as the civil rights movement dismantled Jim Crow. But mass black incarceration is both a symptom and a means of enforcing the special oppression of black people that is fundamental to American capitalism
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