For many years, sociologists have studied that certain Governments use criminal punishment as a way for social control for certain ethnic groups in particularly lower-class communities. Justice itself is not present in certain areas, and crime is sometimes wholly justified on a person's upbringing. Michelle Alexander discusses how every progressive, national civil rights organization in the country have mobilized and taken affirmative action on the injustice brought to them by a corrupted and bias government. I am inferring that the author used an expository writing strategy to convey facts of how authority figures controlled certain groups when it came to elevated crime levels. I would evaluate that in response to the injustice brought on some African American prisoners, activist movements began to develop in order to face the political issues brought from the American government. .
Michelle Alexander discusses her own experience at ACLU and how the program focused on work regarding on criminal justice reform. I really want to learn more in detail about what Michelle Alexander worked through within the ACLU program. From the text itself, the author simply gave off a compelling story but transitioned into more of an expository approach to the writing. From page 47, the author mentions a conservative revolution that took place in the 1960's, and how disadvantaged blacks became afflicted from the social changes within the higher classes of society. My grandparents were young adults during his era, and from the stories they've told me from when I was kid, racism and segregation was always prevalent. Most of my family was raised in the deep south, and the only 'social situations' that were between blacks and whites always seemed to raise conflicts. .
On page 42 of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration, it states that segregationists developed a racially sanitized rhetoric of "cracking down on crime" and it is a method still upheld by politicians today in order to keep a basis on social control.
